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29. The Reality of Truth You Must Enter in Order to Handle Matters With Principle

29. The Reality of Truth You Must Enter in Order to Handle Matters With Principle

29. The Reality of Truth You Must Enter in Order to Handle Matters With Principle

God requires that people handle matters with principle, and this is crucial for God’s chosen people to enter the reality of the truth. To handle matters without principle is to do things by one’s own will; that is, not to practice the truth. The primary expression of someone without the truth is that they handle matters without principle; no matter what they are handling or what duty they are performing, they just act by their own will, they do whatever they want, they act wantonly, they simply don’t seek the truth and they don’t discuss with others. The result is that everything they do is done in a way that goes against the truth and that defies God. Those with a slightly better humanity can only cling obstinately to rules, and apply them mechanically, without any principles whatsoever. Though they may not be doing anything obviously evil, they are simply at odds with the truth. If someone genuinely understands the truth, then they are able to handle matters with principle, and they know how to practice the truth and adhere to principles in the performance of their duties. At times when they don’t understand the truth, they are able to seek the truth, and they rely on their conscience to adhere to the fundamental principles of upholding God’s work and being of benefit to God’s chosen people. Practicing like this is at least in conformity with the truth and does not go against the truth. Whether or not someone is practicing the truth depends primarily on whether or not they handle matters with principle, in conformity with the truth and in a way that upholds God’s work. This is most key, and it is the most accurate way to discern whether or not someone is in possession of the reality of the truth. For example, some leaders and workers are unable to fellowship the truth to resolve problems, and neither do they support or provide for good people who sincerely believe in God, and who are capable of pursuing the truth. They even attack and exclude those good people who are capable of doing some practical work, and instead they absolutely must support evil people who walk the path of the antichrist, who may be gifted, but who don’t have a shred of the reality of the truth. In order to achieve their aims, they always distort the facts and confuse right and wrong, which results in a rise in evil and the suppression of good people. Leaders and workers like this don’t have a shred of the reality of the truth, and they are the ones who defy God and who walk the path of the antichrist, pure and simple. To measure whether or not a leader or a worker is in possession of the reality of the truth: Firstly, it depends on whether or not they exalt God and bear witness for God, and use the truth to resolve problems; secondly, it depends on what kind of person they elevate and cultivate, what kind of person they speak for and support, and what kind of person they attack and suppress—this is the best way to reveal whether someone is good or evil, and the issue of exactly what path they walk. If they are not decent and proper, honest and upright, if they are not someone with moral integrity, then they will be incapable of doing the positive work of supporting good people and providing for those who pursue the truth, they will be incapable of fellowshiping the truth to resolve the practical problems of God’s chosen people, and they will be incapable of genuinely providing for God’s chosen people and leading them into the reality of the truth. Because if someone harbors evil intentions and they have a bad humanity, then they will certainly not be in possession of the reality of the truth, and everything they do will be at odds with the truth and will most certainly go against the truth and defy God. If you discern them conscientiously, then you will certainly see that most of the work they do is negative. Only good people who genuinely pursue the truth can help and support good people to walk the right path; they are certainly able to treat people fairly and impartially in accordance with principles of the truth, and they are certainly able to do a great deal of such positive work as using the truth to resolve problems and supporting and cultivating good people—most of the work they do is positive. This is sufficient to show that only good people can genuinely pursue the truth and walk the right path, that only good people can do positive work while they are doing their duty and serving God, and that the people they support, provide for and cultivate will most certainly be good people who love the truth. Even though those who genuinely love the truth may not be able to understand the truth completely, so long as they handle matters by relying on their conscience and they have proper intentions, they will be absolutely incapable of committing the evil acts of oppressing righteousness and supporting wickedness, and absolutely incapable of doing negative work which harms rather than benefits God’s chosen people. They will be capable only of acting for the benefit of God’s chosen people, and this is for definite. There is a saying that goes, “Justice lives in the heart of man.” Kindhearted people who truly have conscience know naturally what justice and righteousness are, and what people commonly aspire toward. Even if malicious people know what actions conform to the truth, they still can’t put them into practice, and they involuntarily do evil and defy God—this is determined by man’s satanic nature. All those who support and provide for those who are truly God’s chosen people, who elevate and cultivate good people and who strike evil down, only they are good leaders who have the work of the Holy Spirit; all those who do not use the truth to resolve problems for God’s chosen people, who support and elevate evil people and who attack and suppress good people, they are false leaders who walk the path of the antichrist; all those whose every action is a positive work that benefits God’s chosen people are the leaders and workers who conform to God’s will; all those who do negative work that suppresses and harms God’s chosen people are false leaders and false workers. By discerning leaders and workers in this way, you absolutely cannot go wrong. Whether or not God’s chosen people are able to discern between those leaders and workers who are genuine and those who are false has a direct bearing on what path they walk and whether or not they will attain salvation and be perfected; God’s chosen people must be clear on this issue.

The majority of God’s chosen people are currently unable to find the accurate principles of practice in most of the 162 issues, and this is enough to show that most people have not yet genuinely understood the truth or entered into reality. When faced with these 162 issues, everyone is exposed, and everyone can see they are truly impoverished, blind and naked. Most people’s hearts are puzzled: “I used to understand everything, so how come I can’t find the principles of practice in these issues? Are the principles of practice so difficult to ascertain?” Actually, to those who understand the truth, they are simple and easy. Because, ordinarily, most people are good at talking doctrine and they speak empty phrases without focusing on reality. When they are faced with issues that relate to the essence of truth, they become dumbfounded. This is precisely the case where just one case can baffle a hero, if they are without the truth. Now, most people perform their duties, resolve problems and handle matters in a way that is lacking principles, and is even without principles. They always go against the truth and act by their own will. Without the truth, some people will actually act wildly and be self-righteous, and they are indeed so pitiful. Corrupt mankind who don’t pursue the truth are so pitiful, and all those who believe in God but who defy God and who don’t pursue the truth in the slightest are so foolish, absurd and ridiculous!

So how exactly can one ascertain the principles of practice of one truth? First, one must seek for where the reality of the truth is, get a feel for and ascertain the reality contained within the truth that relates to the issue, and then one will easily find the principles of practice. If you don’t understand the truths of these issues, then you will be unable to ascertain their principles of practice. It is meaningless to merely rely on your imaginations to formulate rules. Clinging obstinately to rules is not practicing the truth, because rules are not principles of practice. If you want to understand the truth, then you must clarify the several aspects of fundamental reality that make up the truth; you must also have knowledge of the relationship between the practical value and significance of the truth and normal humanity, know why God requires us to practice the truth and to enter into the reality of these truths in this way, and know what the practical significance is of these truths. This touches upon the issue concerning the image of a genuine person, and the issue concerning the essence of a person’s life. Only when someone possesses the essence of the truth in their life—that is, the reality of positive things—do they then possess the image of a genuine person. Therefore, their genuine image is composed of the reality of these truths. For example, people must possess many realities of the truth in their approach to God. It won’t do to have no faith, no reverence, no reliance, no obedience, no devotion, no knowledge and not to worship; rather, these realities of the truth of man’s faith, reverence, reliance, obedience, devotion, knowledge and worship of God should be the component parts which make up a person’s life. The moment these most fundamental realities of the truth become the essence of someone’s life, they then naturally live out the image of a genuine person. Of course, there are many more realities of the truth in God’s words that are component parts of the reality of a person’s life and, to live out a genuine human likeness, one must also be an honest person, keep one’s word, and have integrity, dignity and compassion. This is also what God requires, and of course it is also a reality of the truth which one should possess. To be compassionate, one must be respectful of others, be considerate, be tolerant and patient, be sympathetic and take pity on others. The reality of these positive things is both truth and life, and they are the reality that must be possessed by normal humanity. If someone lacks one aspect, then it is not complete. The image of a genuine person is composed of these many realities of the truth. Therefore, God’s requirement that we handle matters with principle and enter the reality of the truth is, to corrupt mankind, both salvation and perfection, and God saving mankind in this way is truly so meaningful. It can be seen that, if people don’t pursue to enter the reality of the truth, then they will be unable to attain these truths as their new life, and they will be unable to live out a true human likeness. They will just be people who do not genuinely believe in God, and who will not be saved or perfected.

Now, God’s chosen people have begun to focus on pursuing the truth and entering into reality. If you are able to completely understand, grasp, practice and apply the truths and the principles of practice in these 162 issues, if you are in your elements and are skillful enough, then you are guaranteed to fulfill your duty and serve God’s will, and in this way you will truly understand the truth and will enter into reality. If, with these 162 issues, you are able to handle matters with principle, then you will be entirely in conformity with God’s will; in this way, would you have to worry about whether or not you will be saved and perfected?

The principles of practice of these 162 issues are summarized and arranged below:

1. The Principles of Belief in God

1. You must experience and obey God’s work on the basis of the belief that God created all things and holds sovereignty over all things;

2. You must prioritize the eating and drinking of God’s words, and obey all the judgment and chastisement, the trials and refinement, and the pruning and dealing of God’s words;

3. As you experience God’s work, you must fulfill the duty of a created being, in order to reach an understanding of the truth and enter into reality;

4. You must pursue the truth in order to reach salvation, and to obtain the guidance and perfection of the work of the Holy Spirit.

2. The Principles of Experiencing and Obeying God’s Work

1. Accept and obey all the judgment and chastisement, the pruning and dealing, and the trials and refinement of God; never try to escape them, be slipshod, or let it be in vain;

2. Accept and obey all the truths God expresses, so that God’s words and the truth may become the reality of your life;

3. Obey the leadership and shepherding of the man used by the Holy Spirit, and fulfill your duties in accordance with the principles prescribed by work arrangements;

4. Obey the enlightenment, illumination and inner guidance of the Holy Spirit, and obtain the guidance and perfection of the Holy Spirit.

3. The Principles of Pursuing to Know God

1. You must eat and drink all of God’s words to reach an understanding of the truth, and to know the significance and purpose of the three stages of God’s work;

2. You must obey God’s judgment and chastisement, and trials and refinement, to reach a knowledge of God’s righteous disposition and life essence;

3. You must obtain the guidance of the work of the Holy Spirit and walk Peter’s path of pursuing the truth and being perfected, and be able to seek a true love of God;

4. You must practice exalting God and bearing witness for God according to God’s words and the truth, and you must use the truth to resolve problems in order to bring people before God.

4. The Principles of Upholding a Normal Relationship With God

1. You must first of all give your heart to God and allow God to take charge, frequently have real prayer and association with God, and obtain the guidance of the work of the Holy Spirit;

2. You must frequently eat and drink of God’s words, fellowship the truth, practice the truth and fulfill your duty in order to repay God’s love;

3. In all things, you must harbor right intentions, accept God’s scrutiny, put the interests of God’s family first. You must not make plans for yourself, and you must obey God’s arrangements;

4. You must seek the truth in all things, seek to love God in your heart and practice loving God, and allow God to take charge and hold power in all things.

5. The Principles of Loyally Performing One’s Duty

1. You are able to perform all the duties that you ought to perform. You treat God’s commission as a moral imperative, and you are able to take responsibility for God;

2. You perform your duty only so that you may give every care to God’s heart, repay God’s love, and satisfy God. You do this without the adulteration of motivations, aims, or trades;

3. In performing your duty, you should not be perfunctory and mess around. You are diligent and earnest, you put the truth into practice as asked by God, and are able to pay a price in order for your duty to bear fruit;

4. In performing your duty, you are capable of achieving loyalty to God, and are not governed by any person, matter, or thing. You allow God to observe you, and have the utmost loyalty toward God.

6. The Principles of Eating and Drinking God’s Word in Congregation

1. One must eat and drink God’s word strictly according to the principles as stipulated by the work arrangements from the above in order to keep apace with the Holy Spirit’s work;

2. One must eat and drink God’s word in combination with the existing problems of the church and the actual situations of the majority of God’s chosen people, with emphasis on solving the problems with the truth;

3. Conduct eating and drinking of God’s word with piety. Be quiet before God, pray and ponder on God’s word earnestly so as to receive the Holy Spirit’s work and understand the truth;

4. The purpose of congregating to eat and drink God’s word is to understand the truth, resolve problems and enter into the reality of the truth. It must not devolve into religious rituals and ceremonial procedures.

7. The Principles of Accepting the Judgment and Chastisement of God’s Words

1. You must acknowledge that God’s words are the absolute truth, that they are the reality of positive things whether they accord with people’s conceptions or not, and that this will never change even should heaven and earth turn upside down;

2. No matter how God’s words judge and chastise you, so long as they accord somewhat with facts and there is truth to seek, then you should obey, and seek the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit;

3. No matter how God tests or refines you, it is all done to save and change you, and you should obey and accept it, and seek to enter the reality of the truth;

4. In experiencing God’s judgment and chastisement, you must examine yourself and know the truth of your own corruption and the essence of your nature; and you must accept the truth and have true repentance.

8. The Principles of Accepting Being Pruned and Dealt With

1. You must accept all the judgment and chastisement, and the pruning and dealing of God’s words, and you must take the correct approach to all the pruning and dealing;

2. When you are pruned and dealt with, then no matter how much it accords with facts, you should always accept and obey it, and seek the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit in order to truly know yourself;

3. All the pruning and dealing that is done that targets people’s corrupt dispositions is an effective medicine to treat man’s corruption; you must accept it and obey it, and you will certainly benefit;

4. When you are pruned and dealt with, you must seek the truth, examine yourself and know yourself in order to truly repent—this is God perfecting and saving you.

9. The Principles of Experiencing Trials and Refinement

1. You must understand that all trials and refinement are God’s arrangements, and that contained within them is God’s love, God’s will and God’s requirements;

2. During trials, you must be quiet before God, pray and seek to grasp God’s will; you absolutely must obey God’s work;

3. You must seek the truth, have unshakable faith and stand witness; obeying God is key, and it is preferable to curse yourself than to complain and betray God;

4. In experiencing trials and refinement, you must reach an understanding of the truth and a knowledge of God, and only then can you truly give thanks and praise.

1o. The Principles of Prayer to God

1. The true significance of prayer to God is to understand the truth and attain obedience to God and worship of God. You must not, under any circumstances, engage in religious ceremony;

2. You must draw upon your practical difficulties and problems when praying to God. You must not depart from reality and speak empty words, or talk of letters and doctrines;

3. You must frequently pray to God about the problems of performing your duty and entering into life, seeking to understand the truth and enter reality;

4. There must be reverence for God in your prayers, and you must be reasonable. You may not make demands of God, coerce God, or take advantage of God, much less may you make trades with God.

11. The Principles of Swearing Oaths to God

1. You must understand that God scrutinizes the innermost heart of man and that He scrutinizes all; the oaths you swear and vows you make to God must have meaning and must conform to God’s will;

2. Swearing oaths and making vows to God must be done in order to achieve the aim and result of obeying God and satisfying God; to this end, motivate yourself to turn toward righteousness and stand witness;

3. Swearing oaths and making vows to God is done in the service of life entry; you must never swear false oaths to use God for the sake of achieving your own aims or exonerating yourself;

4. Once you have sworn an oath or made a vow to God, you must hold to your word and work hard to fulfill it; if you do not, then you will have told lies irresponsibly to use and deceive God.

12. The Principles of Quieting One’s Heart Before God

1. Being quiet before God is done for the sake of living before God; you must achieve a state whereby your heart does not leave God’s words, and it is an important principle to be able to live within God’s words;

2. You must frequently contemplate, eat and drink God’s words so that your heart may be filled with God’s words; in this way, you will find it easy to be quiet before God and associate with God in your heart;

3. Seek the truth in all things, always have the guidance of God’s words in your heart and live within God’s words; obey the truth in all things, allow the truth to hold sway, and live before God;

4. You must examine yourself every day; regardless of any corrupt expressions or whether you are pruned and dealt with, you must always be quiet before God, and examine and know yourself.

13. The Principles of Praying to Associate With God

1. Praying to associate with God must be established on the foundation of eating and drinking God’s words; you must pray, seek the truth and associate with God within God’s words;

2. Prayer must be done to achieve an understanding of the truth, to grasp God’s will and to obey God, and not for the sake of engaging in religious ritual to deceive God;

3. Prayer is done to obtain the work of the Holy Spirit and to establish a normal relationship with God, to gain the Holy Spirit’s guidance and to reach a real association with God;

4. You must practice and enter into all the enlightenment, illumination and guidance gained from the Holy Spirit during prayer, and do your utmost to hold onto it—this is an important principle of obeying God.

14. The Principles of Praying to Worship God

1. Praying to God is done to understand the truth, obey God and worship God; true prayer must worship God with heart and with honesty;

2. When you obtain the Holy Spirit’s enlightenment and illumination during prayer, you should thank God and praise God, and when you enjoy the work of the Holy Spirit, you must prostrate yourself to worship God;

3. You must often give thanks and praise to God in light of the enlightenment, knowledge, attainments and enjoyment you gain—this is true worship of God;

4. When you encounter trials or when the responsibility to serve God befalls you, you should prostrate yourself before God, pray and worship God—this is the responsibility and the power of a created being.

15. The Principles of Serving God

1. You must possess a God-loving heart, be able to be considerate toward God’s will, be of one mind with God in all things, and work hard to be God’s intimate;

2. You must seek the truth in all things and be able to grasp God’s will, cooperate closely in the work of the Holy Spirit, and keep pace with the Holy Spirit’s work;

3. As you perform your duties, you must practice the truth and use the truth to resolve problems in order to exalt God and bear witness for God, and to bring God’s chosen people before Him;

4. Be always able to be quiet before God, to examine and know yourself, and promptly correct any transgression or mistake you discover to ensure that God’s will is carried out without obstruction.

16. The Principles of Bringing People Before God

1. As you perform your duties, you must exalt God and bear witness for God, so that God’s chosen people may know God’s work, see God’s love, and be able to truly return to God;

2. You must practice using the truth to resolve problems, to enable God’s chosen people to understand the truth and enter into reality, and so that they may lay foundations on the true way;

3. You must seek to love God, have true compassion toward God’s chosen people, and be able to supply and support God’s chosen people to obtain the guidance and perfection of the work of the Holy Spirit;

4. You must always lead people to experience God’s judgment and chastisement by eating and drinking the words of God, so that God’s chosen people may know God’s righteousness and holiness, and God’s love.

17. The Principles of Using the Truth to Resolve Problems

1. You must seek the truth with every problem of mankind’s corruption, see through the essence of the problem and get to the root, and then use the truth to resolve it;

2. You must fellowship the essence of the truth according to God’s words, so that people may understand the truth and know their own corrupt essence, thus giving rise to true repentance;

3. Resolving problems must achieve the result of making people realize the significance and value of accepting the truth, and allowing them to see God’s love and salvation;

4. You must use your experiences to lead people into the reality of the truth, and to inspire their resolution to pursue the truth and love God.

18. The Principles for the Communion of God’s Words During Assembly

1. You must commune your true experiences and knowledge of the truths of God’s words, making people understand the truth, be edified, and have a path to practice;

2. In communing the truths of God’s words, you must draw upon your knowledge of yourself, and must commune the principles and ways of putting the truth into practice. You may not speak empty talk of letters and doctrines;

3. You must allow those who have the work of the Holy Spirit and real experiences to spend more time communing, so that people understand the truth and know God’s word;

4. Assemblies should lay bare and dissect all manner of serious problems. All that is basically in line with the facts and of benefit to people’s salvation must be accepted and obeyed.

19. The Principles for Leaders and Workers to Follow During Fellowships and Sermons

1. You must exalt God and bear witness for God according to God’s words, and fellowship the truth with clarity so that people know God’s work and fulfill their duties;

2. You must understand and grasp the problems ubiquitous to God’s chosen people, practice using the truth to resolve them, and avoid preaching empty doctrines;

3. Fellowshiping the truth must follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and you must not cling to rules or apply mechanically; you must try your best to fellowship the truth with perfect clarity, so that people may have a path to practice;

4. You must closely follow the work arrangements, sermons and fellowships of the above, keep pace with the work of the Holy Spirit, and lead God’s chosen people into the reality of the truth.

20. The Principles of Exalting God and Bearing Witness for God

1. You must venerate God as great and supreme, have a God-fearing heart, and only obey and worship God; you are not to worship man or be restrained by man;

2. You must fellowship the truth and the knowledge of God according to God’s words, lead people to understand the truth and enter into reality, and bring them before God;

3. Be able to hold firmly to the truth and uphold God’s work; do not compromise or concede defeat to the forces of Satan, but use the truth to resolve all the problems of God’s chosen people;

4. Your focus must be on practicing the truth and entering into reality in your duty, so that you can handle matters with principle and live out a true human likeness to bring glory to God.

21. The Principles of Obeying God’s Administrative Decrees and Commandments

1. One must understand the essence and true meaning of God’s administrative decrees and commandments, understand God’s intention, and have fear of God so as not to offend God’s disposition;

2. One must seek the truth in God’s administrative decrees and commandments to understand God’s disposition and achieve true compliance with God’s administrative decrees and commandments;

3. One must master his own weaknesses and Achilles’ heel to develop the practical principles, know how to keep God’s administrative decrees and commandments and not offend God;

4. One must absolutely obey God’s administrative decrees and commandments, which is the duty man must do, and he must endeavor to keep them even if he does not understand them.

22. The Principles of Accepting and Obeying the Man Used by the Holy Spirit

1. In the work and affairs of the church, there must be total acquiescence to the man used by the Holy Spirit. This is the administrative arrangement of God;

2. You must accept and obey the leadership, watering, and shepherding of the man used by the Holy Spirit, and perform your duty in strict accordance with work arrangements; only then will you be after God’s own heart;

3. Acknowledging that the leadership of the man used by the Holy Spirit is the path by which the Holy Spirit works and guides God’s chosen people and is the way to entry onto the right track of belief in God;

4. You absolutely cannot worship and look up to the man used by the Holy Spirit and allow him to take the place of God in your heart. In your belief in God, you must only magnify God and obey God’s administrative arrangements.

23. The Principles of Approaching Work Arrangements, Sermons and Fellowship

1. Work arrangements, sermons and fellowship all represent the direction of the work of the Holy Spirit and the present will of God; you must accept them, obey them and practice them;

2. You must fulfill your duty in strict accordance with the principles of the work arrangements; you must never go by your own will, do whatever suits yourself by walking the path of the antichrist;

3. You must implement work arrangements, sermons and fellowship with drive and vigor, never falling short, to ensure that you keep pace with the work of the Holy Spirit;

4. Work arrangements, sermons and fellowship arise from the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit, and they pertain to the knowledge of man; you must never substitute them for God’s words or treat them as God’s words.

24. The Principles of Obeying God

1. Obey the authority of God’s words; God’s words are supreme and they are the highest directive and the highest commandment, and you must completely obey;

2. Obey the authority of Christ; accept and obey all of Christ’s utterances and work, and you must obey and worship the incarnate, practical God;

3. Obey the authority of the work of the Holy Spirit; only by obeying all of the Holy Spirit’s work can you understand the truth and enter into the reality of God’s words;

4. Obey the leadership and shepherding of the man used by the Holy Spirit; pursue the truth and fulfill your duty in strict accordance with the principles of the work arrangements.

25. The Principles of Obeying the Authority of God’s Words

1. God’s words are the truth, the authority of God’s words is supreme, God’s words hold sovereignty over all and accomplish all—this is the paramount life maxim for mankind;

2. You must understand God’s words, know the essence of the truth of God’s words, be able to enter the reality of the truth, and make God’s words become your life;

3. The more God’s words judge and expose, prune and deal with people, the more truth there is to seek; you must accept, obey, and seek to enter the reality of the truth;

4. No matter who says it, so long as what they say conforms to God’s words and the truth, you should always accept it and obey the authority of God’s words—God’s words are the highest authority.

26. The Principles of Obeying the Work of the Holy Spirit

1. You absolutely must obey the inner enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit and the guidance of God’s words; it is the work of the Holy Spirit and God’s words which perfect man;

2. You must obey the sovereignty and arrangements of the Holy Spirit, and you must accept and obey all the pruning and dealing, the disciplining and chastening, and the trials and refinement that come from the Holy Spirit;

3. You must obey the work arrangements, sermons and fellowship of the man used by the Holy Spirit, for this is a part of the work of the Holy Spirit;

4. You must obey the enlightenment and illumination that has arisen from the Holy Spirit of all levels of leaders and workers and brothers and sisters, and obey their fellowships that conform to the truth.

27. The Principles of Accepting God’s Scrutiny

1. You must accept God’s scrutiny in the performance of your duties, harbor right intentions in all things, must not conspire for personal interests, and you must stand witness and satisfy God;

2. Pray and accept God’s scrutiny and have real association with God; you should abandon and dispense with anything that does not stand up to God’s scrutiny;

3. Those with a God-fearing heart must be able to accept God’s scrutiny, be responsible to God in their duties, and not be slipshod or deceptive in their work;

4. God holds sovereignty over all and scrutinizes all; whether what you do is in the sight of other people or not, you must bring it all before God and accept His scrutiny and examination.

28. The Principles of Being an Honest Person

1. You must give your heart to God and allow God to take charge, act in accordance with the truth in all things, accept God’s scrutiny and examination, and live in the light;

2. During prayer, you must have real association with God, you must open your heart to God and say the words in your heart, and maintain and uphold a normal relationship with God;

3. Ensure that there are no lies tainted in your speech and that there is no treachery or deceit in your heart; be purely open and wise, and have normal interpersonal relationships with others;

4. You must handle matters with principle and in conformity with the truth, act honestly and straightforwardly, speak and act in accordance with the facts, and be someone who is open and aboveboard.

29. The Principles of Being Absolutely Devoted to God

1. Your heart must be able to be absolutely devoted to God, with a lifelong dedication to expend for God; you are not to make plans for your own future, but must live only to carry out God’s will;

2. Be absolutely devoted to God’s commissions, be responsible to God in the performance of your duties, do not be slipshod in work, and be able to pay the price and bear testimony to satisfy God;

3. Be absolutely devoted to God’s utterances, do not worship any person in your heart, defer to God’s words in all things, and do not look up to man, rely on man or be restrained by man;

4. Absolutely obey God’s orchestrations and arrangements; as long as it arises from God, then obey it with determination, and be like Peter—obedient unto death without complaint.

30. The Principles of Upholding God’s Work in One’s Duties

1. Uphold the church life without reserve, enable God’s chosen people to eat and drink the words of God and fellowship the truth normally, do their duties normally, and enable them to not be disturbed or restrained by evil people;

2. False leaders and workers who are without the work of the Holy Spirit must be dismissed. You must elect as leaders and workers those who pursue the truth and who have the work of the Holy Spirit;

3. You must use the truth to expose and refute all heresies and fallacies so that Satan is shamed, and allow the truth of God’s words to hold sway in the church, and bring the glory to God;

4. You absolutely must fulfill the church’s work in accordance with the work arrangements of the above; beware of antichrists and evil people doing whatever suits themselves, and taking control of God’s chosen people.

31. The Principles of Resolving Negativity

1. You must approach all problems according to God’s words and the truth, recognize that everything God does is for the salvation and love of man, and be able to deny yourself and forsake the flesh;

2. You must recognize the essence and root of negativity. Being negative is to reject and oppose the truth, and to be negative and complain is to defy God and betray God;

3. You must pray to God and seek to grasp God’s will so as to know God’s work, understand God’s will and requirements, and to leave negativity behind;

4. It is too dangerous to live in satanic dispositions, as you will be capable of being negative and defying God at any moment. You must seek the truth so that the positive and right reality of the truth can hold sway.

32. The Principles of Guarding Against Absurdity

1. Focus on eating and drinking the words of God and seeking the truth, and focus on practicing, experiencing and knowing God’s words. Do not explain God’s words by relying on your own thoughts or imaginings;

2. When you eat and drink God’s words, seek more and contemplate more the practical significance of God’s words, and understand the will behind God’s utterances. Do not make interpretations out of context or cling to literal meanings;

3. Be always able to fellowship with those who pursue the truth and who have an accurate understanding, and be able to deny yourself. When you gain knowledge of something, it is best for you to have it corroborated by someone who understands the truth;

4. Accept and obey the watering and shepherding of the man used by the Holy Spirit so that you may purely understand the truth, and accept the fellowships and knowledge of those who understand the truth.

33. The Principles of Resolving Arrogance and Self-importance

1. You must accept the judgment and chastisement of God’s words. When you truly know the essence of your own satanic nature and the truth of your corruption, you then gain reason;

2. You must accept being pruned and dealt with, and disciplined and exposed by God. Once you have experienced failures and setbacks, trials and refinement, you then know yourself inside and out;

3. You must recognize that God is supreme and that God incarnate is humble and hidden, and you must see clearly that arrogance and self-importance are indeed the essence of a satanic nature;

4. You must pursue to know God’s righteous disposition, and when reverence and fear of God arise in you, you are then able to keep a low profile and not defy or betray God.

34. The Principles of How to Approach Transgressions

1. When you transgress, do not give in to despair. Understand that God’s will is the utmost salvation, and that true repentance is critical;

2. When you discover a transgression, you must examine yourself, seek the truth and understand the essence and root of the transgression. Only by effecting true repentance can you be saved;

3. Take hold of the essence and the root of transgressions, use the truth to resolve the problem, and allow your practice of the truth to take the place of the transgression. Avoid repeating past transgressions that offend God’s disposition;

4. Do not be restrained by past transgressions. As long as you pursue the truth and truly repent, then you can be saved and blessed by God.

35. The Principles of How to Approach Failures and Falling Down

1. You must dissect and know the roots of your failures and falling down. You should be cognizant of the law that those who possess an arrogant nature will inevitably fall down and fail;

2. You must recognize that this is God’s salvation. Without failure and falling down, you would never be able to examine yourself or know yourself—failures and falling down are opportunities for positive change;

3. You must have the resolution to pursue the truth—failure and falling down are not to be feared. Only if someone absolutely refuses to accept the truth, then they truly are beyond saving;

4. You must summarize the experiences and lessons gained from failure. Without the truth, you will be unable to stand firm and, if you transgress, then so long as you truly repent, you can still be saved.

36. The Principles of Practicing Spiritual Devotions at Regular Times

1. Without self-examination during spiritual devotions, you will easily deviate and go your own way. Through spiritual devotions you can equip yourself with the truth to make up for your shortcomings, and guard against repeating past transgressions;

2. You must accept God’s scrutiny in your self-examination during spiritual devotions. Only by being pure and open and giving your heart to God can you obtain the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit;

3. You must be quiet before God and eat and drink God’s words, and earnestly examine whether or not you are performing your duties up to standard and how much your duties have been contaminated by personal intentions and aims;

4. Through self-examination during spiritual devotions and recognize whether or not the path you walk is correct, whether or not you pursue the truth and whether or not you can be saved and perfected.

37. The Principles of Self-examination and Self-knowledge

1. You must always examine yourself on the basis of the words of God which judge and reveal man’s corrupt essence, and know the essence of your own nature and the truth of your corruption;

2. You must take hold of your transgressions and expressions of corruption and examine yourself, so as to see clearly the extent of your pitifulness, forsake the flesh and satisfy God;

3. When you encounter pruning and dealing, chastening and disciplining, failure and setbacks, you should examine yourself, and know your own shortcomings, areas of weakness and Achilles’ heels;

4. Examine yourself by means of others’ experiences of falling down and failures, and learn the lessons and gain the benefits so as not to defy God or offend God’s disposition again.

38. The Principles of Examining Whether or Not One’s Disposition Has Changed

1. Examine yourself as to whether or not you have achieved the standards of being an honest person, whether or not you possess conscience and reason, whether or not you are devoted in your duties and how many good deeds you have accrued;

2. Examine your views on things, your views on life and values as to whether or not there has been a fundamental change, and whether or not you possess genuine views on life and values;

3. Examine yourself as to whether or not you truly possess the faith of Job—being able to fear God and shun evil—and whether or not you have a true knowledge of God and true love for God;

4. Examine yourself as to whether or not you are someone who truly obeys God and whether or not, during trials, you are able to achieve the 11 standards of obeying God.

39. The Principles of Being Wise in Your Belief in God

1. You must know the essential differences between wisdom and deceit. Being wise is in order to properly perform your duty and carry out God’s will; it is something positive;

2. You must adopt wise means toward the great red dragon and all other satanic forces, taking upholding God’s work and not causing any harm to the work of the house of God as the principle;

3. You must be honest, and you must be loving and wise toward others, taking being of benefit to others and the work of God as the principle;

4. In spreading the gospel and saving others, you must search for those who are able to accept the truth. Making sure your methods are judicious means taking the effectiveness of salvation as the principle.

40. The Principles of Living out Normal Humanity

1. To live out normal humanity, you must possess conscience, reason, integrity and dignity. Living by God’s words is the foundation of being human;

2. You must be an honest person, speak honestly and do real things, be pure, open and wise, fear God and shun evil, and live by God’s words;

3. Get along with others with a loving heart, be tolerant and patient, forgiving and caring, understanding and respectful, and be able to treat others fairly and impartially;

4. You must pursue the truth and practice the truth, faithfully fulfill the duties of a created being, and live out a true human likeness to glorify God.

41. The Principles of Treating Oneself Correctly

1. You must pursue the truth so as to truly know yourself, know your own real shortcomings, possess self-knowledge and practice being an honest person;

2. Dare to face the truth of your own corruption, uncover and dissect your own corrupt essence and pursue the truth. Do not be hypocritical or deceitful;

3. Hold yourself to strict standards in every aspect, practice in accordance with the principles of the truth in all things, do not act wantonly or follow your flesh. You should have a clear conscience;

4. See things from the perspective of God’s words, accurately measure yourself and find a suitable position in the church, never be negative, fulfill your duty to repay God’s love.

42. The Principles of Treating People With Fairness

1. You must treat all people, matters and things according to God’s words and the truth. Only treating people in accordance with the principles of the truth conforms to God’s will;

2. Treat the strengths and defects of others correctly, do not make excessive demands of others and don’t force people to do what is beyond their capabilities. Do not think too highly of others or belittle others;

3. Have a loving heart for God’s chosen people, do not be swayed by emotions for others and do not harbor prejudices, and do not delimit others by your own self-will, but view others with an eye for development;

4. You must treat others and handle problems in accordance with the essence of different kinds of people. Treat good people who transgress with a loving heart, and hate and abandon evil people.

43. The Principles of Sharing From the Heart

1. To good people who pursue the truth, you should share from your heart and say what is in your heart, open to them your true states and difficulties, and obtain their help;

2. Treat others with sincerity and get along with them with a loving heart, speak in accordance with the truth and with facts, and be helpful and edifying for others. Never harbor suspicions about others or attack others;

3. Understand the other person’s weaknesses and difficulties, be able to stand in a position of neutrality and use your own practical experiences to help others, so that they may not be restrained;

4. Speak and fellowship in a way that allows others to understand the truth and which benefits and edifies them, and which allows them to feel God’s love and salvation, so that they are able to make positive progress.

44. The Principles of Helping Others With a Loving Heart

1. You must distinguish different kinds of people according to God’s word. For those who truly believe in God and accept the truth, you must help them with a loving and honest heart;

2. Treat others according to the principles of the truth, bring others before God for the sake of practicing the truth and fulfilling your duty, and have no individual intentions;

3. Your help for others should make them feel that they need it, that it is appropriate and they feel willing to accept it. Your help for others should not contain your own intentions, and it should not be done to make a bargain or to collect something from others in return;

4. Helping others with a loving heart includes being pruned and dealt with, as well as criticism and reproach, so as to enable people to understand the truth, to truly know themselves and enter into reality.

45. The Principles of Obeying Brothers and Sisters

1. No matter the position or stature of brothers and sisters, as long as they fellowship in conformity with the reality of the truth, then you should accept and obey it without personal choice;

2. Everyone is equal before the truth. As long as what brothers and sisters fellowship is enlightened and illuminated by the Holy Spirit, then you should accept and obey it, and live in the light;

3. You should respect those who understand the truth and who expend sincerely for God, and you should accept and obey those who are able to lead you into the reality of the truth;

4. When brothers and sisters point out your shortcomings or rebuke or criticize you, you should accept and obey even if you are unaware of them. Never try to justify yourself.

46. The Principles of Offering Apologies

1. If you hurt or attack brothers and sisters resulting in them becoming negative, you must proactively offer them an apology and ask their forgiveness;

2. Offering apologies must be principled—never offer an apology to antichrists, evil people or evil spirits, so as to avoid shaming God;

3. Your apologies to others must be genuine. You must not be false and say a few perfunctory words, you should make them perceive your sincerity;

4. You must recognize your corruption according to God’s words, and dissect your own satanic nature for the other person, so that they may derive benefit and edification.

47. The Principles of Denying Oneself and Forsaking the Flesh

1. You must affirm God’s words as the truth, and know that only because all of corrupt mankind possess satanic natures do they have arrogance, self-importance and defiance of God;

2. The more something is believed to be impossible and the more it is at odds with people’s conceptions and imagination, the more you should seek the truth, deny yourself and obey God;

3. By pursuing the truth you should reach a knowledge of the truth of your own corruption and the essence of your nature, be able to deny yourself and forsake the flesh, and never again believe yourself;

4. You must seek the truth in all things, and abandon your assertions and opinions. Only by forsaking the flesh and practicing the truth can you live out a true human likeness.

48. The Principles of Forsaking and Cursing Oneself

1. In your understanding of the truth, you must know the essence of your own satanic nature. Only by truly knowing yourself can you forsake and curse yourself;

2. Only by truly knowing God can you truly hate Satan. It is better to curse yourself than complain to God, and you must stand witness to satisfy God;

3. By truly hating the great red dragon, you can then hate and curse yourself, and you are then able to forsake the great red dragon and expend all to carry out God’s will;

4. Curse the flesh is actually to curse Satan. If you do not practice the truth or love God, then you should be cursed, and this is Heaven’s law and earth’s principle.

49. The Principles of Practicing to Love and Satisfy God

1. Give your heart to God completely, and ask God to take charge of you. Be able to treat as urgent that which God treats as urgent, and think as God thinks, in order to be of one mind with God;

2. Take God’s commissions as your responsibility, and take obeying God’s orchestrations and arrangements as your heaven-sent vocation, so as to fulfill the duty of a created being;

3. Love that which God loves and hate that which God hates, hate evil as your enemy, and do your utmost to uphold God’s work and protect the interests of God’s chosen people;

4. Regard gaining Christ as the most precious thing, regard loving God and serving God as the most glorious duty, and be willing to dedicate your whole life to carrying out God’s will.

50. The Principles of Depending on God and Looking to God in All Things

1. You must have absolute confidence in God’s omnipotence and sovereignty over all things, and you must know that Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. This is a fundamental principle;

2. In your heart you must magnify God, only God must have a place in your heart, and you may not worship or follow any other. You must only depend on and look to God, and live according to God’s words;

3. You must search for God’s will in all things and look to the enlightenment, illumination, and guidance of the Holy Spirit. You must only obey the truth and perform your duty properly according to God’s words;

4. In all things, you must have true fellowship with God. During various trials, it is even more necessary to pray to God, look to God, and depend on God’s words and truths to stand firm in your testimony.

51. The Principles of Seeking to Grasp God’s Will

1. You must seek and understand God’s will according to God’s words and on the basis of God’s requirements of man, so as to reach an understanding of the truth and to practice the truth;

2. Seek the truth to counter people’s conceptions and misunderstandings of God, recognize people’s absurdity and preposterousness, so as to reach an understanding of the truth and to obey God;

3. During trials and refinement, seek to understand God’s will and requirements, so as to accurately practice the truth, truly obey God and stand witness;

4. Seek to understand the truth in matters that relate to principles of the truth and your duty, and use the truth to resolve problems.

52. The Principles of Truly Knowing Oneself

1. You must accept the judgment and chastisement of God’s words, so as to be able to see through the truth of your own corruption and the essence of your nature—only this is to truly know yourself;

2. You must accept being exposed through being pruned and dealt with by God, and through God’s trials and refinement, and only then will you truly know exactly what corrupt mankind is;

3. You must pursue the truth to know God’s disposition and essence, and only then will you be able to recognize your own ugly, selfish, degraded and insignificant look;

4. Examine yourself in the light of God’s words with regard to your transgressions, failures and falling down, so as to gain knowledge of the essence of your own satanic nature.

53. The Principles to Be Observed Concerning the Growth of One’s Spiritual Life

1. You must focus on eating and drinking the words of God and accept the judgment and chastisement of God’s words, so as to truly know and obey God’s work;

2. You must obey all the pruning and dealing, and the trials and refinement that come from God, so as to understand the truth and have true knowledge of God;

3. In your duties, you must always use the truth to resolve your own corruption and transgressions, so as to achieve real results in your duties and gain God’s approval;

4. Pray often to God and have real association with God within God’s words, obtain the guidance and perfection of the work of the Holy Spirit and be able to serve God according to the truth.

54. The Principles of Overcoming the Temptation of Satan

1. You must do your utmost to pursue the truth. Only if you truly know God’s work can you identify the cunning schemes of Satan and overcome the temptation of Satan;

2. When trial and refinement come upon you, you must spend more time and effort praying to God and seeking the truth. When you achieve understanding of God’s will, you will be able to identify the cunning schemes of Satan;

3. You must clearly see that the true facts of battle of the spiritual world are Satan’s accusation of God’s chosen people and wager with God. Only those who stand firm in their testimony will be saved;

4. You must hold to God’s words, and be resolute in obeying the truth, being loyal to God, and striking back at the deceitful schemes of Satan; only then can Satan be thoroughly shamed and defeated.

55. The Principles of How to Approach the Persecution and Adversity of the Great Red Dragon

1. Know that God’s wisdom is exercised based on Satan’s plots. Persecution and adversity is permitted by God and is done to perfect and edify God’s chosen people;

2. Through persecution and adversity, see through the evil and reactionary demonic essence of the great red dragon, so as to truly forsake the great red dragon and stand witness for God;

3. Apply all your wisdom to do battle with Satan, turn toward righteousness and have no fear of brutal suppression, but continue to perform your duties faithfully and complete God’s commissions;

4. Keep true faith in God, no matter how the great red dragon persecutes or hunts you. Persevere with eating and drinking the words of God, keep to the true way and follow God to the end.

56. The Principles of Standing Witness and Bearing Witness

1. You must focus on eating and drinking the words of God and truly know God’s work. By seeking the truth and understanding God’s will during trials will you be able to stand witness;

2. Have the faith of Job during disasters and trials, and no matter how much pain or torment you suffer, it is better to curse yourself than to complain against God or betray God;

3. Be able to obey all of God’s orchestrations and arrangements during trials without complaint and, like Peter, be able to love God utterly and obey God till death;

4. No matter how Satan deceives, tempts, disturbs or oppresses you, always be able to see through its cunning schemes, be absolutely devoted to God, and shame Satan.

57. The Principles of Obeying Till Death During Trials

1. You must know God’s work, and have faith that all adversity and refinement comes from God’s orchestrations in order to expose people, as a testing program for man;

2. Take your stand as a created being. Everything man has comes from God, submit to God’s orchestrations in living and dying, and do not lay conditions or make excuses;

3. Have the resolution of Peter to love God, take satisfying God as your principle, and be able to sacrifice everything and live to carry out God’s will. It is better to die than to betray God;

4. No matter how God arranges things during trials, as long as you have breath left you must be devoted to God’s commissions, and be utterly faithful to God even at the cost of your own life.

58. The Principles of Forsaking the Great Red Dragon

1. See through the reactionary essence of the great red dragon which savagely defies and attacks God, and deceives and devours man. Let hatred and curses arise in you for the great red dragon;

2. You must expend faithfully for God, dedicate yourself completely to God, and fulfill the duty you are supposed to fulfill to shame Satan;

3. You must pursue the truth and allow God’s words to take charge and hold sway in your heart. Purge and cast away all the poison of the great red dragon and live by God’s words;

4. Accept God’s words as your life, make a clean break from the great red dragon, do not be restrained by the great red dragon in the least, and be utterly faithful to carrying out God’s will.

59. The Principles of Satisfying God’s Last Eleven Requirements

1. You must pursue the truth so as to be able to truly know God’s work, God’s almightiness and wisdom, righteousness and holiness, and that God holds sovereignty over all;

2. You must have a God-fearing heart, truly love God above all things, have the resolution to obey till death, and stand witness to satisfy God;

3. You must have the faith of Job; no matter what God does, do not make excuses or complain, but give thanks to God and praise God’s righteousness;

4. You must possess conscience and reason. Make no demands and desire nothing extravagant from God, but ask only to practice the truth, to satisfy God, and stand witness for God.

60. The Principles of Casting Off Satan’s Forces of Darkness

1. You must frequently have real prayer and association with God, completely open your heart to God and obtain the guidance and perfection of the work of the Holy Spirit;

2. You must focus on eating and drinking the words of God, seek the truth in all things, be able to truly obey God, and not be restrained by any person, matter or thing in the fulfillment of your duties;

3. You must equip yourself with the truth so as to be able to distinguish the great red dragon, antichrists, false leaders, evil spirits and evil people, and so that you are absolutely not deceived by Satan;

4. You must accept the judgment and chastisement of God’s words so as to truly know and hate yourself, and to be able to forsake the flesh and obey God, and live by God’s words.

61. The Principles of Pursuing the Truth

1. You must take obtaining the work of the Holy Spirit on the foundation of obeying God’s work as your principle, and only in this way will your pursuit of the truth be effective;

2. You must establish a normal relationship with God, obtain the perfection of the work of the Holy Spirit, and obey and closely follow the leadership and shepherding of the man used by the Holy Spirit;

3. You must dedicate your life to God. You must suffer and pay the price for the sake of fulfilling your duty to your utmost ability and upholding God’s work, so that God’s will may be carried out;

4. You must walk the path of Peter, do your utmost to pursue the truth and seek to love God, go by God’s words in all things and never follow false leaders or antichrists.

62. The Principles of Practicing the Truth

1. You must understand God’s will according to God’s words, and be clear on the main aspects of reality of the truth—this principle must never be violated;

2. You must do your utmost to uphold God’s work, and resolutely fulfill your duties using the principle of being beneficial to the life entry of God’s chosen people;

3. You must act according to the truth, and hold fast to the principle of performing your duties in any environment or context, needing only to achieve results, and not following rules;

4. Those who follow the truth must feel that the principles you adhere to in your duties are appropriate—ensure that your conscience remains clear, and you have no regrets.

63. The Principles of Preparing Good Deeds

1. You perform your duty willingly and happily, and only in order to repay God’s love, without trying to make a trade or get something in return. You carry out the work of God’s commission with a heart that loves God;

2. You loyally perform all the duties that you are able to perform and ought to perform, earnestly taking responsibility, striving for the very best, and not being perfunctory or messing around;

3. In performing your duty, you are able to devote all your efforts, pay any price, and endure any pain, remaining faithful to God’s commission from beginning to end;

4. In performing your duty, you are able to uphold God’s work. At a minimum, you are able to ensure that the work of the house of God is not interfered with, and that the lives of God’s chosen people are not harmed; in this principle, this is the very least that is asked of you.

64. The Principles of Living Before God

1. Engage in real prayer every day, be able to fear God and shun evil, be able to seek to truly love and obey God, and be able to truly worship God;

2. Be often quiet before God and eat and drink His words, accept God’s judgment and chastisement, accept being pruned and dealt with, and focus on knowing yourself and on changing your disposition;

3. Pray to God and have real association with Him in all things, and obtain the work and guidance of the Holy Spirit so as to understand the truth and fulfill your duty;

4. Accept the scrutiny of God’s Spirit in all things, focus on contemplating God’s words with a prayerful heart to understand and practice the truth, and live by God’s words.

65. The Principles of Obtaining the Work of the Holy Spirit

1. Your heart must turn to God, and you must engage in real prayer and share from your heart with God. Your heart must yearn for the truth and you must have the resolution to pursue the truth and expend for God;

2. Be able to sincerely expend for God, and be able to practice the truth and sincerely love God in the fulfillment of your duties. Be willing to suffer and pay the price to spread the gospel and bear witness for God;

3. Closely follow the work arrangements, sermons and fellowships of the above, and keep pace with the work of the Holy Spirit. Live within the light of the Holy Spirit’s present work;

4. You must establish a normal relationship with God, be able to pursue the truth, and resolve any conceptions about God or estrangement from God in a timely manner. You must absolutely obey God’s work.

66. The Principles of Obtaining the Holy Spirit’s Work to Perfect Man

1. Be able to genuinely love the truth, pursue the truth, and be devoted to your duties. Those who can practice the truth and obey God will surely gain the perfection of the Holy Spirit;

2. Be able to obey God’s judgment and chastisement, and submit to being pruned and dealt with. Those who absolutely obey God’s work will surely gain the perfection of the Holy Spirit;

3. Be able to give your heart to God. When you hear and understand the truth, you are then able to practice the truth and be an honest person, and you will surely obtain the perfection of the Holy Spirit;

4. When your heart is able to sincerely love God, pursue the truth and walk the path of Peter, and when you can sincerely expend for God, you will surely obtain the perfection of the Holy Spirit.

67. The Principles of Truly Loving God

1. Be able frequently to pray to God, share with God from your heart and examine yourself. Allow God to hold sway and be in charge in your heart, and be able to exalt God as great and to truly worship God;

2. Perform your duties without being slipshod, and without trying to bargain or ask for anything in return. Even if you serve as a dog, you must do your utmost to stand sentry and guard the door of God’s family;

3. Be resolute in completing God’s commissions, be earnest in your responsibilities and be meticulously attentive. Be able to satisfy God by performing the essential work of serving God;

4. Do your utmost to pursue the truth, absolutely obey God’s judgment and chastisement and submit to being pruned and dealt with, solely for the sake of being purified, and so as to conform to God’s will;

5. Seek to be an honest person, have real association with God, and expel conceptions, estrangement and misunderstandings. Be a confidant of God and obey God completely;

6. Be able to show consideration for God’s will, treat as urgent that which God treats as urgent and think as God thinks, be of one mind with God in all things and dedicate your whole life to carrying out God’s will;

7. Love God with all your heart and all your mind, practice exalting God and bearing witness for God to bring people before Him. Become a true witness for God.

68. The Principles of Fearing God

1. You must be clear that God scrutinizes the innermost heart of man and scrutinizes all things. God knows man’s intentions and designs like the palm of His hand—this is the minimum knowledge you should have of God;

2. You must understand God’s administrative decrees and commandments, and you must also seek the truth, so as to have true knowledge of God’s disposition and to give rise to a God-fearing heart;

3. You must keep careful account of God’s intentions in all things, and be able to pray to God and seek the truth frequently. Only by remaining vigilant and showing consideration to God’s will can keep you from defying God;

4. No matter how God works, whether it conforms to man’s conceptions or not, and no matter how the Holy Spirit guides you, you must have the intention to obey. If you don’t understand, then you should seek the truth.

69. The Principles of Confirming the Enlightenment and Illumination of the Holy Spirit

1. The enlightenment and illumination that comes from the Holy Spirit surely conforms to God’s words and to the truth, and it enables people to understand God’s will and understand the reality of the truth;

2. The enlightenment and illumination that comes from the Holy Spirit can bring people knowledge of God’s work, and knowledge of their own expressions of corruption and shortcomings, as well as giving them the resolution to cooperate;

3. The enlightenment and illumination that comes from the Holy Spirit can bring people true knowledge of God’s work, and increase their knowledge of the essence and truth of their own corruption;

4. The enlightenment and illumination that comes from the Holy Spirit can enable people to understand the truth, to have practical knowledge of God, and to understand the path to life entry in clarity.

70. The Principles of Exalting God as Great

1. You must allow God to take first place in your heart, and be able to practice exalting God and bearing witness for God. Do not look up to or worship any person or other power;

2. You must seek God’s will in all things, treat all people and matters according to God’s words and the truth, and enable God’s words to become the foundation of human existence;

3. You must turn toward righteousness and resolutely hold to the principles of the truth, have a God-fearing heart, do your utmost to uphold God’s work and make no compromise to the forces of darkness;

4. You must allow God to rule as king in your heart, make satisfying God your number one priority in all things, abandon fame and fortune, status and personal intentions, and be absolutely devoted to God.

71. The Principles of Showing Consideration to God’s Will

1. You must understand the truth and understand God’s will, bear burden for God’s commissions, treat as urgent that which God treats as urgent and think as God thinks, and cooperate with God;

2. Understand God’s good intentions, know the price God pays and the hope He has for man, and do your utmost to satisfy God’s requirements so as not to disappoint God;

3. Fulfill all the duties you are capable of with a God-loving heart, spare no thought for personal gain or loss, but work only to repay God’s love and comfort His heart;

4. Rely on your conscience, be conscientious and responsible, and do your utmost to uphold God’s work. Be able to turn toward righteousness and do battle with the forces of Satan for the sake of ensuring the normality of church life.

72. The Principles of Allowing God to Hold Sway in Your Heart

1. Give your heart to God and exalt God as great in your heart. Seek for God’s wish in all things, and practice the truth and do your duty in accordance with God’s requirements;

2. Frequently pray to worship God, obtain the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit, act obeying the guidance of the Holy Spirit and live before God;

3. Do your utmost to pursue the truth and accept God’s words as your life, go by the principles of the truth in all things, completely obey the authority of God’s words and be a servant of the truth;

4. You must know God’s work, understand God’s will, love the truth in your heart, be able to fear God and seek to become one who loves God.

73. The Principles of Comforting God’s Heart

1. Focus on eating and drinking the words of God, understanding the truth and practicing the truth so as to enter the reality of God’s words and achieve a change in your life disposition;

2. Fulfill your duties in accordance with the principles in the work arrangements, do your utmost to uphold God’s work, and be utterly devoted;

3. No matter how much pain you suffer during trials and refinement, all you wish is to be able to understand God’s will and to stand witness to satisfy and glorify God;

4. Be an honest person and sincerely expend for God, dedicate your entire being to completing God’s commissions and carrying out His will, and live for God.

74. The Principles of Practicing the Truth in All Things

1. No matter what issue you encounter, be quiet before God, pray to God and try to grasp His will, seek the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit and obey the guidance of the Holy Spirit;

2. No matter the issue, you must always seek the truth and principles of practice in God’s words. Understand and grasp both the truth and the principles of action;

3. Find brothers and sisters who have the work of the Holy Spirit and who are clear on the truth to fellowship and seek the truth with, so as to understand God’s will and to have a path forward;

4. If you are unable to accurately grasp God’s will, you can practice the principle of being beneficial to God’s chosen people. If you later discover an error, then you must rectify it.

75. The Principles of Seeking to Understand the Truth

1. You must pray more and seek the truth more on the basis of God’s words, learn to grasp God’s will in all things and obtain the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit;

2. You must focus on experiencing and practicing God’s words, and you must also use God’s words to fellowship the truth—only in this way will you gradually come to understand the essence of the truth;

3. During trials, you must focus your concentration on seeking the truths and principles of how to stand witness, so as to achieve a deeper and more practical knowledge of the truth;

4. You must grasp the essence of the truth and practical specifics and determine the principles of practice. Only this way can you genuinely understand the truth.

76. The Principles of Knowing God’s Words

1. When you eat and drink God’s words, you must conscientiously contemplate God’s words with a prayerful, seeking heart, and yearn for the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit. Only in this way can you gradually come to understand the truth;

2. When you read God’s words, you must focus on understanding the reality of the truth of God’s words, understanding God’s requirements and their significance. Only in this way will you have a true knowledge of God’s words;

3. You must look for answers in God’s words in order to understand God’s words. Only in this way will you find it easy to understand the reality of the truth and the significance of its essence;

4. You must focus on putting God’s words into practice. Only by gaining the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit through experiencing God’s words can you understand the essence and significance of God’s words and the truth.

77. The Principles of Obeying God’s Words and the Truth

1. You must recognize that all of God’s words are the truth. Whether they accord with man’s conceptions or not, they will never change, and you must not pick and choose which ones you accept and obey;

2. You must practice all the truths within God’s words. No matter how much of God’s words you understand, obey and practice them first, and through experiencing them, you will gradually gain a clear understanding of them;

3. You must obey the judgment and chastisement, and the pruning and dealing of God’s words so as to gain knowledge of your own corrupt essence and enter into the reality of the truth;

4. You must obey the authority of God’s words. No matter who speaks, as long as what they say conforms to God’s words and to the truth, then you should accept and obey it—God’s words are the highest authority.

78. The Principles of Entering the Reality of God’s Words

1. Focus on seeking and contemplating the truths within God’s words, so as to understand God’s will and requirements, and to understand the essence of the truth;

2. You must put the truths you understand into practice and achieve a more accurate and clearer knowledge of the truth. Only then can you enter the reality of God’s words;

3. You must accept the judgment and chastisement of God’s words and genuinely recognize the truth of your own corruption and the essence of your nature. Only then can you enter the reality of God’s words;

4. You must rely on the work of the Holy Spirit and experience the perfection of God’s judgment, chastisement, tribulations and refinement. Only then can you enter the reality of God’s words.

79. The Principles of Knowing God’s Utmost Salvation of Man

1. As long as there is a sliver of hope that people are able to accept the truth and truly repent, God will not abandon His salvation of them;

2. When people transgress, as long as they are able to know and repent, and can change, then God will forget. God gives people the chance to repent so that they may gain salvation;

3. During the time of the work of God’s word, no man is readily punished. To the greatest extent possible, God is tolerant of people and gives them the chance to repent;

4. God saves those who truly believe in God, loathes and curses antichrists, the wicked, and unclean and evil spirits. Those who hate the truth will surely be destroyed.

80. The Principles of Recognizing God’s Perfection of Man

1. God only perfects those who genuinely love the truth, pursue the truth and who love God sincerely. Those whose hearts do not love God can never be perfected;

2. God perfects man through words that express His righteous disposition, thus enabling people to know themselves, and give rise to true repentance and change within His words;

3. God perfects man through judgment and chastisement, pruning and dealing, and trials and refinement, thus enabling people to know God and give rise to change in their dispositions;

4. God perfects man by using the great red dragon as a foil, thus enabling people to recognize the satanic nature of mankind, and know God’s righteous disposition, almightiness and wisdom.

81. The Principles of Walking the Path of Peter

1. You must walk the path of pursuing the truth, which is the path of truly knowing yourself so as to achieve dispositional change and be perfected;

2. You must focus on seeking to love God, be able to practice the truth and follow the example of Christ in all things, and become someone who truly loves God and bears witness for God;

3. You must focus on knowing God and knowing yourself within God’s words, and understand God’s requirements of man, so as to understand the truth and enter into reality;

4. You must accept God’s judgment and chastisement, trials and refinement, and know God’s righteousness and holiness, so as to ultimately be able to love God utterly and be obedient till death.

82. The Principles of Being a Church Leader

1. You must perform all church work in strict accordance with work arrangements, and be able to accept the inspection of higher level leaders and the supervision of God’s chosen people;

2. You must uphold God’s work and protect God’s chosen people from being deceived and disturbed by antichrists, evil people, evil spirits and all manner of satanic influences;

3. You must serve harmoniously in coordination with your work partners, be devoted to God’s commissions at all times, take the interests of God’s chosen people as your priority and abandon the interests of the flesh;

4. You must lead all the brothers and sisters who pursue the truth to learn to eat and drink God’s words and experience God’s work, and lead them to enter the reality of the truth.

83. The Principles of Being a Church Deacon

1. You should work harmoniously with church leaders and be able to accept being pruned and dealt with. When you have difficulties, make them known to your leaders without delay, so as to avoid causing delays to your work;

2. You must focus on your personal life entry, focus on pursuing the truth and changing your disposition, fulfill your duties and be devoted to God’s commissions;

3. You must supervise church leaders’ work in accordance with work arrangements. If you discover that they are not doing practical work, then you must give them advice or report to higher levels;

4. You must uphold the normal order of church life. When a matter arises whereby someone is causing confusion, you should protect God’s chosen people from being deceived.

84. The Principles of Being a District Preacher

1. You must water and supply all church leaders and workers in accordance with work arrangements, and resolve the real, existing difficulties and problems of leaders and workers;

2. You must have a grasp of the states and statures of all church leaders and workers. If you discover a false leader or worker, you must report it and replace them without delay;

3. You must cooperate with district leaders to perform all the work of the district. You must work with them harmoniously, and focus on discovering and cultivating people who are of talent;

4. You must supervise the district leaders’ work in accordance with work arrangements. If you discover that they are not doing practical work, then you must give them advice or report to higher levels.

85. The Principles of Being a District Leader or a Member of the Regional Decision-making Group

1. You must exalt God as great and high, be able to exalt God and bear witness for God, and concentrate your focus on bringing all levels of leaders and workers into the reality of the truth;

2. You must work in strict accordance with the above’s work arrangements. Never allow yourself to rely on your self-will to do whatever suits you, and beware of the dangers of walking the path of the antichrist;

3. Be devoted to God’s commissions and perform the comprehensive work of the church, and focus on performing the two fundamental tasks of leading leaders and workers to progress in their life entry, and spreading the gospel;

4. You must learn to serve with your work partners, resolve all problems according to the truth, ensure the normal life of the church, and do your utmost with the work of spreading the kingdom gospel.

86. The Principles of Being a Member of a Pastoral Area Decision-making Group

1. You must be devoted to God’s commissions, take carrying out God’s will as your heaven-sent vocation and be able to accept the Holy Spirit’s scrutiny in everything you do;

2. You must perform the pastoral area’s comprehensive work in accordance with the pastoral area decision group’s work responsibilities, and you must accept being pruned and dealt with by the above, and accept his direction;

3. You must perform the work of watering with the truth according to God’s words and in strict accordance with work arrangements, and pay attention to the key, essential work;

4. You must make proper adjustments to all levels of leaders. If you discover a co-worker going against the principles of the truth, you must fellowship with them to resolve it without delay, and be ready to clamp down on false leaders at all times.

87. The Principles of Serving in Coordination

1. You must perform all church work in strict accordance with work arrangements, do your utmost to fulfill your duty, and never allow yourself to do whatever suits you;

2. You must obey the work of the Holy Spirit and the principles of the truth. You must adhere to self-will or be restrained by other people, and you must not sell out principles, but must supervise each other;

3. Do not seek to prevail over others, but seek and fellowship the truth in all things to reach a common consensus. Learn from each other, do not get caught up with the past, and respect and obey each other;

4. You must uphold the work of God’s family. If you discover that your partner has a problem, you must help them without delay. If you are not able to cooperate together, then you must promptly seek to resolve the problem.

88. The Principles for Watering Newcomers

1. We must provide new believers with adequate watering and sustenance on the aspects of visions of the truth so that they may become well-rooted in the true way as soon as possible;

2. Newcomers must be watered and supported with love. They are to be gently encouraged, and inspired and guided so that they may properly eat and drink God’s words and fellowship on the truth;

3. Deal with newcomers wisely and take care to observe their states and difficulties. Resolve currently held notions and issues in a timely manner;

4. Have newcomers understand the significance of believing in God and performing their duty, and be able to love and pursue the truth in order to enter into the right track of belief in God.

89. The Principles of Watering and Supplying God’s Chosen People

1. You must water and supply God’s chosen people on a step-by-step basis according to the principles in work arrangements, so as to enable them to understand the truth and enter onto the right track of belief in God;

2. You must grasp the fundamentals and use the truth to resolve problems according to the Holy Spirit’s present work, thus enabling God’s chosen people to obey God’s work and perform their duties;

3. You must fellowship the essence of the truth according to the states of God’s chosen people. The minimum requirement is to not let people become negative and passive, and for them to be able to pursue the truth and enter into reality;

4. You must fellowship the truth according to the statures, calibers and practical difficulties of God’s chosen people, varying your approach from person to person, and not employing a “one size fits all” approach.

90. The Principles of Church Elections

1. You must fellowship the truth before elections, and you must elect as leaders and workers those who pursue the truth, who have the work of the Holy Spirit and who sincerely expend for God;

2. You must practice the truth during elections, treat everyone fairly, and not rely on emotions or private resentments. You must vote impartially according to people’s essence;

3. All God’s chosen people within the church (not including those who have been expelled or isolated) have the right to vote and the right to be elected. People in Group B do not have the right to be elected;

4. Absolutely no one is allowed to appoint a candidate. You must ensure that over 80% of people in the church attend the ballot for it to be valid.

91. The Principles of Living the Church Life

1. You must eat and drink the words of God and fellowship the truth in accordance with the principles prescribed by the present work arrangements, and you must keep pace with the work of the Holy Spirit;

2. In meetings, you should fellowship more about your experience and knowledge of God’s words, and you must also fellowship the principles of practice about the truth, so as to have a path to put the truth into practice;

3. Those who pursue the truth and who have an accurate understanding should fellowship more. It is best for those without experience or knowledge to listen more to fellowships and contemplate God’s words more;

4. You must abide by the principle of only fellowshiping what you understand. Do not speak carelessly or preach letters and doctrines, and do not say things that have no bearing on the topic.

92. The Principles of the Church Being Separated Into Group A and Group B

1. You must separate people into Group A and Group B according to whether or not they pursue the truth, whether or not they have the work of the Holy Spirit, whether their humanity is good or bad, and whether or not they cause disturbances in the church;

2. You must separate the “10 types of people” as mentioned in work arrangements into Group B, to give them the opportunity to repent and change;

3. Those with serious problems, special problems and those with whom you are temporarily unable to penetrate or define the essence of their problems, should all be placed in Group B;

4. You may make adjustments at any time to who is in Groups A and B, according to the level to which they pursue the truth. You must, however, obtain the approval of over half the church to proceed.

93. The Principles of Making Adjustments to Leaders and Workers

1. Making adjustments to leaders and workers must be done according to their essence. All those who go against work arrangements, who do whatever suits themselves and who are of antichrists must be replaced;

2. All false leaders and workers who do not pursue the truth, who do not have the work of the Holy Spirit and who are unable to do practical work must be replaced and must have separate arrangements made for them;

3. You must make use of people according to their stature, caliber, strengths, whether their humanity is good or bad, and the level to which they understand the truth;

4. Elected leaders and workers must be the best candidates who are comparatively capable of fellowshiping the truth, resolving problems and doing practical work.

94. The Principles of Cultivating and Making Use of People

1. You must elevate and cultivate those who sincerely believe in God, who pursue the truth, who have a sense of righteousness, who have a good humanity, and who have the work of the Holy Spirit;

2. If good people who have been previously replaced truly repent and are able to do practical work, they may be elected and once again elevated;

3. So long as new believers who have only believed for one or two years have a good humanity, a good caliber and they pursue the truth, then they may be cultivated at the earliest opportunity;

4. As for those who have transgressed, who are arrogant and self-important, but who are able to pursue the truth and truly repent, so long as they are able to do practical work, then they may be elected and elevated.

95. The Principles of Sounding Somebody Out When Spreading the Gospel

1. First you must get an accurate grasp of whether the person’s humanity is good or bad, whether or not they can accept the truth and whether or not they have evil spirits working in them, and then you may confirm whether or not they are someone who you can spread the gospel to;

2. While you are sounding somebody out, you must understand and have a grasp of their caliber, their likes, their Achilles’ heels and their conceptions, in order to provide background information for the sake of future presentation of testimony;

3. While you are sounding somebody out, you must use the wise method to build a good relationship with them, obtain their trust and make a good impression. Only then will you have hope of gaining them;

4. When sounding people out, you must have a loving heart and be patient. You must never be slipshod, but must make effort with people who you can spread the gospel to—only then will you successfully gain people.

96. The Principles of Spreading the Gospel and Bearing Testimony to God

1. You must, according to God’s words, bear clear and insightful testimony to God’s work of the last days. You must dispel people’s conceptions and imaginings, removing the obstacles and hurdles that stand in their way;

2. You must conscientiously analyze and look into every potential convert, establishing actionable proposals and striving to open up the situation as effectively as possible;

3. You must choose the right recipients for the gospel, and flexibly adopt a variety of enlightened methods. As long as you do not break the law or commit a crime, you should do whatever it takes to gain more people;

4. You must look to the work of the Holy Spirit and follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You must employ flexible, efficient methods to spread the gospel both directly and spontaneously. Where the situation permits, you can do so openly.

97. The Principles of Hosting God’s Chosen People

1. You must rely on your loving heart and be principled when hosting God’s chosen people, and you must also obey the church’s arrangements. Never host antichrists, evil people or evil spirits;

2. At key times, you must ensure the safety of leaders, workers, brothers and sisters—this is an obligatory responsibility;

3. You should do whatever you can according to your family situation. God’s family advocates simplicity and convenience with regards to meals, and excessive eating and drinking is not permitted. The principle is to ensure that brothers and sisters can eat their fill;

4. If the host family has any difficulties, then the church must resolve them. If the host family is poor and finds it hard to get by, the church may bear all hosting costs.

98. The Principles of Offering and Donation

1. Neophytes who do not understand the truth are not permitted to make offerings. Only those with true faith who sincerely believe in God can make offerings;

2. The offering and donation of God’s chosen people must be conducted through repeated prayers with total willingness, without regret and expectation for reward, in order to be commemorated by God;

3. Donations must be made to select recipients, indigent brothers and sisters who pursue the truth and sincerely expend for God;

4. Money and materials offered to God should be consigned to the custody of the church for safekeeping. Donations to individuals do not have to be transmitted by the church. They can be donated directly.

99. The Principles of How to Approach God’s Offerings

1. The money and possessions of God’s family, including all assets, are all offerings dedicated to God by God’s chosen people. They do not belong to any church or leader;

2. Besides God and His priest, no one has the right to enjoy God’s offerings. If anyone uses them without permission, then they are a Judas who steals offerings;

3. The offerings dedicated to God are arranged, handled and administered by God and the man used by the Holy Spirit. No one may interfere with or handle them arbitrarily;

4. Any loss caused by those who commit serious graft and steal offerings must be recovered and repaid. If the person refuses to repay, punitive retribution may be implemented.

100. The Principles of Paying Visits to Brothers and Sisters

1. All those who sincerely believe in God but who do not yet understand the truth should be visited and supported, and you should do your utmost to help them with a loving heart;

2. You must have the utmost compassion and patience to support new believers. You should focus more on bearing witness for God’s work so that people understand the truth and experience God’s love;

3. Fellowship the truth and resolve problems according to people’s existing real problems, so that people know God’s work and feel that they have a path to follow;

4. Visiting brothers and sisters is not done solely to resolve the problem of life entry. You should use all your strength to help them with other problems, so that they have the faith to follow God.

101. The Principles of the Church Issuing and Safeguarding Books of God’s Words

1. All necessary books must be promptly issued to those who sincerely believe in God and who pursue the truth—no one may violate this principle;

2. New believers with whom it is not yet clear whether or not they pursue the truth are to be issued only with the gospel book, hymn book and recordings of the above’s sermons and fellowships;

3. No one may confiscate books of God’s words from God’s chosen people for any reason (besides from those who have been expelled or purged);

4. Only people with good humanity and responsible hearts may be arranged to safeguard the books of God’s family. Book custodians must be conscientious and responsible, and take responsibility for God.

102. The Principles of the Safeguarding and Use of the Money of God’s Family

1. The three levels of leaders are directly responsible for arranging the safeguarding of God’s family’s money. The transfer of offerings must be signed by a minimum of two to three leaders or workers；

2. You must be conscientious and responsible with the safeguarding and use of offerings. If loss is incurred through neglect of duty, then investigation into the responsibility of relevant people will be necessary;

3. Money must be used to pay for all appropriate costs of church work or to resolve the monetary concerns of those doing their duty. It must never be used arbitrarily or misused;

4. The moment an adverse environment arises, offerings should be transferred or distributed without delay, and according to the actual situation, into the hands of a number of people with good humanity and who pursue the truth, for their safekeeping.

103. The Principles for the Care of Those Who Perform Their Duty Full Time

1. Each month, appropriate living costs are provided to those who perform their duty based on a moderate living standard and their own specific needs;

2. For entire families of believers who perform their duty full time, appropriate arrangements should be made if they fall into difficulty, allowing them to clothe and feed themselves and survive;

3. For families in which part of their members are believers and perform their duty full time, if they fall into difficulty, care should be given according to their circumstances, ensuring that all those who perform their duty have a means to survive;

4. In the event of illness or accidents, care should be provided as befits the situation. In special circumstances, a report must be filed and matters handled by the regional decision-making team.

104. The Principles of How to Treat New Brothers and Sisters

1. You must water the truths of the vision for new believers, remove all of their conceptions, and enable them to lay foundations on the true way and not turn back;

2. You must not place requirements on new believers that are too high. You should approach their problems and conceptions with a loving heart, and you must patiently fellowship the truth and promptly resolve their problems;

3. You must not use rules to restrict people. You should water them with the truth according to the actual situation of each individual, and you must not constrain anyone to do what is beyond their ability;

4. You must be wise, and take precautions against those with a bad humanity who are too poor at accepting the truth. You must never reveal the names or addresses of leaders or workers to them.

105. The Principles of How to Treat People Who Have Believed in God for Many Years and Been Exposed

1. All those who have believed for many years who have never pursued the truth and never done their duty, are unbelievers and false believers. They belong to the Gentiles and should be cast aside;

2. If someone has never pursued the truth but is able to render service, then as long as they are not evil or an antichrist, then you should treat them wisely with a loving heart, and give them the opportunity to repent;

3. You should treat with a loving heart those who have believed in God for many years, who have a relatively good humanity and who are able to render service faithfully. Use all your strength to help and support them to enter the reality of the truth;

4. Those who have never been able to render service, who frequently do evil and who play a bad role in the church must be purged or expelled.

106. The Principles of How to Treat People With Different Arrogant Natures

1. So long as an arrogant person who is not evil sincerely believes in God, then you should do your utmost to supply and support them, and enable them to enter onto the right track of belief in God;

2. You should elevate and cultivate those arrogant people with a good caliber and a good humanity, who are able to pursue the truth and who possess reason. You must never attack or exclude them;

3. Those who are exceedingly arrogant, who are without a shred of reason, who are wildly ambitious, who obey no one and who are of the antichrists must be expelled;

4. Those who are of the absurd antichrists and evil spirits, who are absurd in the extreme, who insist on absurd doctrines, who oppose the truth and who are arrogant and preposterous, must be purged.

107. The Principles of How to Treat People Who Pursue the Truth and Who Have the Work of the Holy Spirit

1. All those who pursue the truth and who have the work of the Holy Spirit are truly God’s chosen people. You must help those who have transgressed, failed or fallen down with a loving heart;

2. You should cultivate and cherish those who pursue the truth, who have the work of the Holy Spirit, who have a good caliber and a sense of righteousness. Never allow anyone to attack them or make false charges against them;

3. The church must take people who pursue the truth and who have the work of the Holy Spirit as its core, focus on watering and cultivating them, and enable them to have opportunities for exercise in their duties;

4. The church must cultivate those with a good humanity, a good caliber, who pursue the truth and who have the work of the Holy Spirit, and God’s chosen people must cherish and protect them.

108. The Principles of How to Treat Leaders and Workers

1. God’s chosen people must exalt God as great and not look up to or worship any leader or worker. They must obey God and obey the truth in all things and not be restrained by any person;

2. As long as what leaders and workers say and do conform to God’s words and to the truth, and so long as they are able to exalt God and bear witness for God, then they are fit for use, and you must accept and obey them;

3. If the actions of leaders and workers do not conform to the truth, then you should adhere to the principles and the truth and not be restrained by the leader or worker. Fellowship with a loving heart, and enable them to repent;

4. If a leader or worker engages in misconduct, goes against work arrangements and does whatever they please, then they should be exposed, removed or reported to higher levels.

109. The Principles of Supporting and Cooperating With the Work of Leaders and Workers

1. As long as leaders and workers can do their work based on the work arrangements from the above and use the truth to resolve problems, one should accept and obey;

2. When leaders and workers encounter difficulties in their work, God’s chosen people should provide support and cooperation, and safeguard the work of God’s house with one heart and mind;

3. If leaders or workers go against work arrangements and work according to their own intentions, there should be discernment and one must not foolishly follow along. They should be turned around through fellowship with love;

4. If leaders or workers are attacked or framed by wicked people, God’s chosen people should stand on the side of God. One has the responsibility to protect well leaders and workers.

110. The Principles of How to Treat Leaders and Workers Who Transgress

1. You should correctly treat leaders and workers who seek the truth but transgress, and help them with a loving heart. You must not attack or condemn them, or make false charges against them;

2. If a leader or worker goes against work arrangements and they work by their own self-will, then you may fellowship the truth with them or prune and deal with them, to give them the opportunity to repent;

3. You should help and support with a loving heart leaders and workers who have a good humanity, a good caliber and shallow experience, who may have transgressed, but who are worth cultivating;

4. Leaders and workers who have committed serious transgressions that have caused severe loss to the work or property of God’s family must be replaced, unless they truly repent.

111. The Principles of How to Treat False Leaders and Workers

1. False leaders and workers who have a bad humanity, who do not pursue the truth and who are able to do evil must be replaced, banned and eliminated;

2. Evil demon antichrists who commit all kinds of evil, who evoke the indignation of all and who engage in establishing their own kingdoms must be exposed, analyzed and then expelled;

3. Other duties may be arranged for those who have a relatively good humanity, who have shallow life experience and who have lost the work of the Holy Spirit because they don’t pursue the truth, and they should be treated with a loving heart;

4. False leaders and workers with relatively good humanity who have been replaced, but who then truly repent and are able to do practical work, may once again be elected, elevated and made use of.

112. The Principles for Reporting on Leaders and Workers

1. It must be determined that the Holy Spirit is absolutely not at work. Corroboration and support by several people who understand the truth should be obtained. Then the due process for reporting can be followed;

2. If a leader or worker is found to have seriously violated work arrangements, committed evil or suppressed God’s chosen people, he must be reported and exposed;

3. A leader or worker who has transgression or shows corruption should be given help with love. If he refuses to accept the truth, then he can be reported, exposed and replaced;

4. If a leader or worker commits much evil, revealing his true colors, and is revealed to be a wicked person or an antichrist, he must be reported, exposed, removed, and expelled.

113. The Principles of Leaders and Workers Resigning From Their Posts

1. All false leaders and workers who do not pursue the truth, who cannot do practical work and who long ago lost the work of the Holy Spirit must resign;

2. All those who refuse to distribute or implement work arrangements, sermons or fellowships, and who obstruct God’s chosen people from accepting the leadership and shepherding of the above must resign;

3. All those who go against work arrangements, who do as they please, and who incur major losses and disasters to the work of God’s family and to God’s chosen people must resign;

4. If a leader or worker transgresses or does evil, but is able to sincerely repent and guarantee that they will work well thereafter after undergoing being pruned and dealt with, then they may have a reprieve from resigning.

114. The Principles of Removing Leaders and Workers From Their Posts

1. You should first complete investigation work, and there must be sufficient factual evidence to accurately define someone as a false leader before removing them from their post;

2. You must canvas popular opinion, and only when the majority of God’s chosen people who understand the truth approve that the person is a false leader or worker can you remove them from their post;

3. Under the premise of ensuring safety and ensuring that the church life is not disturbed, you must take prompt action against false leaders and antichrists, and never procrastinate;

4. You may make common cause with several others who are genuinely God’s chosen people and two or three leaders and workers to remove from their posts false leaders and antichrists who do all manner of evil.

115. The Principles of Discerning Whether or Not One Has the Work of the Holy Spirit

Whether or not someone has the work of the Holy Spirit depends on:

1. Whether or not they are able to accept the judgment and chastisement, the pruning and dealing, and the trials and refinement of God’s words, and whether or not they are truly obedient to God’s work;

2. Whether or not they gain new light from eating and drinking the words of God, whether or not they have their practical knowledge of the truth, and whether or not they have true knowledge of their own corrupt essence;

3. Whether or not they see results in their duties, whether or not they frequently exalt God and bear witness for God, and whether or not they have a God-fearing heart;

4. Whether or not their life disposition has changed, whether or not they have progressed over time, whether or not their interpersonal relationships become increasingly normal, and whether or not they can treat others fairly.

116. The Principles of Discerning Heresies and Fallacies

1. Anything that does not come from God or from God’s words—so long as it runs counter to God’s words and the truth—is heretical and fallacious;

2. All ideas and theories that deny God, deny God’s words and the truth and which do not pertain to positive things, are heretical and fallacious;

3. All words that come from Satan and from all manner of evil spirits, no matter who tries to pass them off, are heretical and fallacious;

4. All hereditary culture, conceptions and imaginings and academic theories that arise from corrupt humanity and which oppose God’s words, are heretical and fallacious.

117. The Principles of Discerning All Manner of Evil Spirits

1. All those who are possessed by demons or who often have evil spirits working on them are evil spirits. All those who hate the truth and who wildly defy God are evil spirits;

2. All those who try to pass themselves off as God’s firstborn sons or as angels, or who do not bear witness for the true God but bear witness for themselves, or who wish to be God, are evil spirits;

3. All those who are unable to purely understand God’s words, who are exceptionally absurd and preposterous, who always misinterpret God’s words and propagate fallacies, are definitely evil spirits;

4. All those who deny God, attack God, blaspheme against God, who especially hate the truth and hate the man used by the Holy Spirit, are all evil spirits that are the reincarnations of evil demons.

118. The Principles of Discerning When Evil Spirits Are Trying to Deceive People

1. If anyone tries to pass themselves off as Christ or as an angel, and they are always telling lies and they do not conform to God’s words at all, then they are an evil spirit trying to deceive people;

2. Whosoever declares themselves God’s beloved son, firstborn son, an angel, or a prophet come to speak and work, who speaks words that seem true but are actually false, is an evil spirit trying to deceive people;

3. All those whose understanding abilities are of extraordinary absurdities, who always propagate heresies and fallacies, who distort facts and deny God’s work, are evil spirits trying to deceive people;

4. All those who focus on the supernatural, who say they often hear voices and see visions, who can know and point out the sins of others and perform miracles and wonders, are evil spirits trying to deceive people.

119. The Principles for Discerning Antichrist Demons

1. All antichrist demons are arrogant and conceited, refuse to obey anyone, don’t have a place for God in their heart whatsoever, and never exalt or bear witness to God;

2. All antichrist demons hate the truth, resist the truth, they never know themselves, especially arrogant and self-righteous, and moreover they don’t accept or practice the truth;

3. Antichrist demons only strive for power and profit, always want to deceive, entrap and control people to set up their own independent kingdom, and like to associate with wicked people and evil spirits;

4. All antichrist demons have a deep-rooted hatred for the man used by the Holy Spirit, and adopt all sorts of arguments and slander to attack and condemn as they scheme to replace him.

120. The Principles of Discerning All Kinds of Evil People

1. Evil people especially hate the truth, they never accept the truth or accept God’s judgment or chastisement, and they accept being pruned and dealt with even less;

2. Evil people are unreasonable, are adept at saying that black is white and distorting facts, they like to subjugate and harm others, and they will use unscrupulous means to achieve their aims;

3. Evil people have not one shred of conscience or reason, and they are utterly insensible no matter how much evil they do or to what extent they harm others—they are like cold-blooded animals;

4. All evil people definitely have no love for the truth, but only love evil. They cannot help but do evil, and even if they appear to be eating and drinking the words of God, it is only done for show.

121. The Principles of Distinguishing the Wheat From the Tares

Whether someone is wheat or tares depends on:

1. Whether or not they have true faith in God, whether or not they truly accept God’s judgment and chastisement, and truly obey God’s work;

2. Whether or not they have real prayer and association with God, whether or not they have a God-fearing heart, and whether or not they have obtained the work of the Holy Spirit;

3. Whether or not someone’s heart genuinely loves the truth and pursues the truth, whether or not they can accept the truth and practice the truth, and whether or not they can unite in concerted effort with their brothers and sisters;

4. Whether or not they truly do their duty, whether or not they can practice the truth and have good deeds in the performance of their duty, and whether or not they are devoted to God.

122. The Principles of Discerning Letters and Doctrines

1. Letters and doctrines all arise from people’s analysis and explanations of God’s words. They are not true experience and knowledge, and they represent man’s conceptions and imaginings;

2. Doctrines arise from the minds and thinking of man. They are not the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit and are not true experience, and they can’t stir people’s hearts or benefit them;

3. Letters and doctrines are all rules and external ways of doing things. They have no principles of practice and no path, and they restrain people from attaining deliverance;

4. Preaching letters and doctrines is not bearing witness for God, but rather it is showing off oneself. It makes people admire caliber and gifts, and they have absolutely no knowledge of God.

123. The Principles of Discerning Whether or Not One Is in Possession of the Reality of the Truth

Whether or not someone is in possession of the reality of the truth depends on:

1. Whether or not they have true knowledge of God, and whether or not they can see through the essence of problems according to God’s words so as to use the truth to resolve these problems;

2. Whether or not they can practice the truth and be devoted to God in their duties, whether or not they can exalt God, bear witness for God and lead people into the reality of the truth;

3. Whether or not they truly accept the judgment and chastisement, and the pruning and dealing of God’s words, and whether or not they truly obey and worship God;

4. Whether or not their view on things, their outlook on life and their values have transformed, whether or not they are an honest person, and whether or not they have changed their life disposition.

124. The Principles of Discerning the Essence of One’s Nature

1. Determine the essence of someone’s nature by looking, based on their preferences, at exactly what they focus on pursuing and what path they enjoy walking;

2. Determine the essence of someone’s nature on the basis of their weaknesses, their Achilles’ heels and what limits them most severely;

3. Determine the essence of someone’s nature on the basis of their consistent performance, the dispositions they frequently express, and what kind of people they choose and like to associate with;

4. The essence of a person’s nature may be confirmed from the world view, outlook on life and values they hold to, as well as the path they walk.

125. The Principles of Distinguishing Between True and False Churches

Whether a church is true or false depends on:

1. Whether or not the church life has the work of the Holy Spirit, whether or not they truly fellowship the truth in meetings, and whether or not the lives of God’s chosen people are progressing gradually;

2. Whether or not the church leaders love the truth, pursue the truth and have the work of the Holy Spirit, and whether or not they truly understand the truth and practice the truth;

3. Whether it is the truth that holds sway in the church, or evil people, and whether it is those who pursue the truth who hold sway, or evil people and people who cause disturbance;

4. Only where those who genuinely pursue the truth and have the work of the Holy Spirit assemble is a church. Where evil and muddleheaded people gather is a religious site—not a church.

126. The Principles of Distinguishing Between Pursuing the Truth and Having a Muddleheaded Belief

Whether someone is pursuing the truth or they have a muddleheaded belief depends on:

1. Whether they focus on eating and drinking God’s words, accept God’s judgment and chastisement and have constant life progression, or whether they scheme against other people, cause disturbances and muddle along day by day;

2. Whether they focus on understanding the truth, fulfilling their duty and entering into reality, or whether they focus on external ways of doing things and superficial enthusiasm, and they refuse to acknowledge their mistakes;

3. Whether they focus on seeking the truth to resolve their problems of corruption when they encounter issues, or whether they are muddleheaded, they pay consideration to their flesh and greedily lust after a life of comfort and ease;

4. Whether they practice the truth and obey God in their duties, or whether they are slipshod in their duties, they try to deceive God and obstinately refuse to repent.

127. The Principles of Distinguishing Between Positive and Negative Things

Whether something is positive or negative depends on:

1. Whether it comes with God’s work and arises from within God’s words and the truth, or whether it comes from Satan and evil spirits, or has been processed and disguised by them;

2. Whether it is something which God requires people to seek to have, and which conforms to God’s words and the truth, or whether it pertains to world trends and is something which worldly people pursue;

3. Whether it edifies people, benefits them and enables them to be positive, or whether it corrupts people, ruins them and causes them to become negative and perish;

4. Whether it restores people’s normal humanity and enables them to obey God and worship God, or whether it causes them to be degenerate and decadent, and walk toward death.

128. The Principles of Distinguishing Between Practicing the Truth and Good Behavior

Whether someone is practicing the truth or is behaving well depends on:

1. Whether they act according to the requirements and principles of God’s words and according to the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit, or whether they act in accordance with their emotions, preferences, conceptions and imaginings, or their own experiences;

2. Whether they act according to the reality of the truth they understand and in accordance with principles, or whether they cling to rules, go through the motions and focus on external ways of doing things;

3. Whether they possess reality and achieve results in their practice of the truth, or whether they make a big fuss over small matters to give people a false impression;

4. Whether they revere God, are devoted to God and achieve real results in the performance of their duties, or whether they are slipshod in their duties, they go through the motions, and they engage in disguising and deceit.

129. The Principles of Distinguishing Between Those Who Follow God and Those Who Follow Man

Whether someone follows God or follows man depends on:

1. Whether they pray to God, seek the truth, rely on God and look up to God in all things and allow God to hold sway, or whether they always look up to man, heed and follow man;

2. Whether they choose to obey God’s words and words that conform to the truth, or whether they only heed what people say, uphold man in all things and are restrained by man;

3. Whether they only obey the leadership of God and the man used by the Holy Spirit, or whether they are restrained and controlled by false leaders, antichrists and evil people;

4. Whether they focus on accepting the truth, and obey the truth according to God’s words in all things, or whether they submit to man’s status, spiritual doctrines and life philosophies.

130. The Principles of How to Treat People According to Their Essence

1. So long as someone is confirmed to be an evil person, an evil spirit or an antichrist in essence, then they must be expelled or purged no matter how much evil they have done;

2. Those whose essence is not that of an evil person, an evil spirit or an antichrist, but is of someone with a bad humanity who has transgressed, should be helped with a loving heart and given the opportunity to repent;

3. You should watch and wait regarding those with special problems, whose essence you are temporarily unable to see through. They may be handled when you are able to see through their essence and define it;

4. You must not judge or condemn people according to their momentary expressions, but must determine their essence according to their consistent performance, and treat people fairly by relying on the principles of the truth.

131. The Principles of Determining One’s Duty and Place

1. Obey the arrangements of the church and perform your duty. As long as most of God’s chosen people see it as appropriate, then that is your appropriate place;

2. Determine the appropriate duty for you to perform based on your own caliber, strengths, and your actual stature. As long as most others look upon it favorably, the position you hold is suitable;

3. No matter what duty you are performing, you must have confirmation of the work of the Holy Spirit. In your duty, it is only correct and suitable if you feel you are in your element and you handle affairs in a principled way;

4. You must frequently pray about your duty and obey God’s arrangements without question. Perform your duty under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and you will meet God’s will.

132. The Principles of Church Admission

1. Church admission must be handled in accordance with principles. You must guard against evil people, evil spirits and the great red dragon’s spies infiltrating the church;

2. Anyone who sincerely believes in God—as long as their essence is not determined to be that of an evil person, an evil spirit, or anyone to whom the gospel may not be spread—may be admitted into the church;

3. Anyone who has been isolated due to having become known to the authorities or has left the church because they could not bear to part with the world, may only be admitted back to the church if they have a good humanity which has been verified by many;

4. Those who display practical expressions of true repentance or atonement after being expelled may be admitted only with the verification and agreement of the majority of God’s chosen people.

133. The Principles of Isolating People From the Church

1. Those who have been arrested and then released must first be isolated for three to six months regardless of the circumstances, in case of potential danger;

2. Those who frequently disturb and interrupt the church life, who pay no heed to dissuasion and who refuse to mend their ways after being pruned and dealt with, may be isolated;

3. False leaders and workers who have a bad humanity, who have many transgressions and a bad reputation, but who are not evil people, must be replaced and isolated so that they may examine themselves;

4. The church may only isolate someone with the approval of over 80 percent of people throughout the whole church. This decision may be lifted only if the person truly repents.

134. The Principles for Church’s Expelling People

1. The church must follow God’s words of truth and the principles prescribed in the work arrangements to determine that someone cannot be saved before making the decision to expel them;

2. The church must only implement the procedure of expelling someone if God’s chosen people all acknowledge that in essence that person belongs to one of the five kinds of people that should be expelled. No one can be expelled based on momentary transgressions;

3. The church must expel people that belong to the gang of an antichrist that follow the antichrist and run and toil for the antichrist and do not repent;

4. A person can only be expelled if all levels of workers and leaders and more than 80% of the members of the church have determined that he or she cannot be saved.

135. The Principles for Church’s Purging People

1. The church must follow God’s words, the truth and the principles prescribed in the work arrangements to determine that someone cannot be saved before making the decision to purge them;

2. The church implements the purging procedures for dead people that do not understand any of the truth, and people who cannot fulfill their duties and play a bad role in the church;

3. The church implements purging procedures for those who, according to their manifestations, are determined as evil spirits and filthy demons, evil people, absurd people, wooden-headed people, tactless and impulsive people and troublemakers;

4. The church can implement purging procedures only if all levels of workers and leaders and more than 80% of the church people consent.

136. The Principles of How to Approach One’s Future and Destiny

1. People’s destiny is held in God’s hands—people are not in charge of their own destiny. Obeying God’s sovereignty and arrangements is Heaven’s law and earth’s principle;

2. Have faith that everything God does is righteous, have true faith in God, and obey God’s sovereignty and arrangements in living and dying;

3. Do not be restrained by the future and destiny. No matter what blessings you gain or misfortunes you suffer, only pursuing the truth, knowing God and loving God is the most meaningful life;

4. Believe in God with all your heart even if you have no future and no destiny. Fulfilling your duty to repay God’s love is the conscience and reason people should have.

137. The Principles of How to Approach Natural Calamities and Man-made Misfortunes

1. No matter what natural calamity or man-made misfortune befalls, you must have faith that God is righteous and almighty, and that everything God does is truthful and meaningful;

2. Corrupt mankind all possess satanic natures and the poisons of the great red dragon. You must accept judgment and chastisement before you can be purified, and you should obey God’s orchestrations and arrangements;

3. You should have the faith of Job in disasters and trials. Do not complain against God, do not deny God and do not abandon God, but stand firm in your testimony for God;

4. You must understand that sympathizing with the devil Satan is defying and betraying God. Even if God terminates our flesh and our families, we must still praise His righteousness.

138. The Principles for Treating Illness

1. Mankind has been deeply corrupted by Satan. Prior to their salvation, it is not unusual for people to fall ill, and such illnesses should be faced correctly, without complaint;

2. The onset of illness is God’s love, it is God’s judgment, chastisement, and cleansing of man, and the key is whether people are able to seek the truth and obey God;

3. It is not by chance that people are beset by serious illness. Before God, they should look within themselves, see whether they have committed any transgressions, and confess and repent to God;

4. Do not blindly adhere to doctrine. Based on your stature and understanding, you can choose medical treatment or reliance on faith. But what’s important is whether or not you are cleansed.

139. The Principles of How to Approach Death

1. The life and death of man is in God’s hands, it is all arranged and predestined by God, and man should not make their own choices;

2. Man’s flesh and souls all belong to God, and never to themselves. They should be given over into God’s hands, and you should submit to God’s orchestrations in living and dying;

3. God is righteous and He scrutinizes the innermost heart of man. His arrangements for each and every person are fair and reasonable—do not judge things you cannot understand;

4. God allows us to live each day and so we should live for God. We need to give our lives, and it is incumbent upon us to obey God’s arrangements and stand witness.

140. The Principles of How to Approach Love and Marriage

1. You may choose according to your own understanding—there are no rules. No one has the right to interfere in this matter, but neither must it interfere with your belief in God or the performance of your duties;

2. Giving up marriage for the sake of pursuing the truth and fulfilling your duty is a special testimony in conformity with God’s will—it is extremely wise and worthy of God’s praise;

3. If you really cannot overcome your flesh, then you may choose a suitable partner. A minimum requirement of your decision is that it must benefit your life. You must not impact the real work of believing in God for the sake of satisfying your flesh;

4. Respect appropriate love and marriage. Multiple marriages go against the truth and against moral principles. Those who play at marriage are evil spirits and filthy demons.

141. The Principles for Behavior Toward Your Wife or Husband and Children

1. If your wife or husband and children all believe in God, you should allow yourselves to be governed by God’s words and the truth, and leave yourselves in the charge of Christ. You should learn how to support and obey each other;

2. If your wife or husband and children are not believers, but do not oppose your belief, if it is according to the principles for spreading the gospel, you should often testify to God’s love and bring them before God;

3. You should take an enlightened approach to wives, husbands, or children who oppose the belief in God and hate the truth. You should not force the wicked to believe in God and enter the church;

4. For family members who are not believers, you should choose whether to stay with or leave them based on whether they support your belief or are against it, and according to their degree of opposition and harm.

142. The Principles of How to Approach Children’s Education

1. Guiding your children to believe in God and worship God is an incumbent parental responsibility. You should fellowship the truth and bear witness to God’s love, enabling them to know God;

2. You should guide your children to walk the right path of belief in God according to God’s words and the truth, so that they may understand the truth of mankind’s corruption and the significance of belief in God;

3. Whether your children choose to believe in God or go to college, parents may only fellowship the truth and implement guidance. You must respect your children’s decisions, and never compel them;

4. You should not require your children to rise above others or glorify your ancestors. Real glory is learning some practical knowledge to understand the truth and walk the right path in life.

143. The Principles of Interpersonal Association

1. Be principled in your contact with others. Do not engage in life philosophies or physical interactions, but establish normal interpersonal relations in conformity with the principles of the truth;

2. You must possess normal humanity, be able to love one another, be an honest person, and be able to respect, understand, tolerate and exercise patience with one another;

3. Seek to be an honest person. Because mankind has been corrupted so deeply, you should be wise and principled in your association with others, in a way that is beneficial to others, to yourself and to the church;

4. Treat others correctly—do not think too highly of them or disparage them. Be able to treat other people’s imperfections and transgressions correctly, and treat other people both fairly and impartially.

144. The Principles of Associating With the Opposite Sex

1. We must see clearly the substance of the wicked promiscuity of the descendants of Moab. Only when one pursues truth, and knows God’s disposition as righteousness and holiness will he be able to keep himself chaste;

2. One must have dignity and decency, and diligently pursue truth in doing one’s duty, often accepting God’s observation. If an evil thought arises, pray to God immediately for protection;

3. As much as possible, avoid working together alone with members of the opposite sex. In speech and activity be principled and have a standard of behavior. Be controlled not dissolute;

4. A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself. If temptation is encountered, best pray to God, and stay far away from wicked members of the opposite sex and trouble spots.

145. The Principles of How to Approach World Trends

1. All world trends have their source in the evil forces of Satan. Their essence is a negative thing which defies God, denies God and opposes the truth;

2. World trends are indeed a giant vat of sin and licentiousness, and you should see through the dark, evil and filthy corrupt truth of world trends;

3. Recognize that all world trends are games Satan uses to toy with people, luring people’s hearts so that they shun God, defy God and bring about their own ruin;

4. In your belief in God you should pursue the truth and shun evil things, and do not follow world trends. You should live in the light of God’s words and live by God’s words.

146. The Principles on Treating Festivals and Customs

1. Traditional customs are all tricks of Satan for toying with people. They have not been established by God, and He hates the human festivals and customs;

2. People who believe in God should not pay mind to or follow the customs of corrupt humanity. They should advocate for positive things, and allow the truth to flourish;

3. Appropriate celebration on festivals is permitted, but it cannot interfere with carrying out your duty. Only doing things that God is pleased with is true happiness;

4. When performing your duty in different places with different customs, you must learn to go with the flow and adapt to the environment, but you cannot let your heart be taken over by it.

147. The Principles on Treating Traditional Culture

1. Most of traditional culture comes from Satan or evil spirits, and it is the satanic pernicious influence that denies God and is an enemy to the truth, and is a negative thing;

2. Traditional culture is an invisible bind that ties and shackles mankind. It is a tool for Satan, the king of devils to confuse, control, and swallow people whole;

3. Traditional culture makes people more and more corrupt, depraved, degenerate, and farther and farther from God. It makes people become enemies of God;

4. If you discern and dissect the essence of traditional culture based on God’s words and the truth, you will be entirely able to see into its corruption and reactionary nature, and you will be able to hate and reject it.

148. The Principles of How to Approach Practical Knowledge

1. Practical knowledge is beneficial to improving one’s caliber and is something you should possess. You should approach it correctly and learn to master it;

2. Knowledge is not the truth and cannot become people’s life. It is merely a tool that people cannot live without—do not have blind faith in it or worship it;

3. Only by possessing the truth can you correctly approach and make rational use of knowledge. Without the truth and only with knowledge, you cannot extricate yourself from Satan’s corruption;

4. You may learn to master practical knowledge sufficiently, but only by focusing on pursuing the truth can you be saved.

149. The Principles of How to Approach Knowledge and Science

1. Neither knowledge nor science are the truth, but are weapons used by Satan and evil demons to corrupt people. Seeking knowledge and science is the path of destruction;

2. Neither knowledge nor science can save mankind. They can only corrupt people, cause people to shun God and deny the truth, and wreak destruction on man;

3. The more knowledge people have, the more they defy God, and the more it can lead people’s outlook on life, values, ideas and viewpoints to become more evil, reactionary, absurd and preposterous;

4. Neither knowledge nor science can resolve the problems of man’s corruption—they can only accelerate mankind’s destruction. Only the truth can save mankind.

150. The Principles of How to Approach Religious and Theological Theories

1. Religious and theological theories are counterfeit, bogus copies of the truth. They are all doctrines that appear true but are actually false, and which cause people to delimit and defy God;

2. Religious and theological theories absolutely do not come from the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit, but come from man’s conceptions, imaginings, and logical reasoning—they are fraudsters’ lies;

3. Religious and theological theories are not the truth and they cannot save man. The more people seek theological knowledge the more wildly arrogant and self-important they become, and they deny the truth and defy God;

4. Religious and theological theories are exceedingly bewitching empty theories, without a shred of the reality of the truth. You must use the truth to expose, refute and repudiate them utterly.

151. The Principles of How to Treat Religious Personages

1. Religious personages are all religious frauds, with no knowledge of God whatsoever. They are antichrists who think they serve God but actually defy God—do not put blind faith in them or worship them;

2. Religious personages do not have the truth and they do not have the work of the Holy Spirit. They all think they believe in God but they actually defy Him, and the path they walk is that of the antichrist;

3. Religious personages are the hypocritical modern-day Pharisees hated by God. You should expose them, be able to discern them, and abandon those who obstinately refuse to repent;

4. Those who are able to accept the truth, seek the true way and who have the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit should be admitted, treated with a loving heart, and helped to the utmost of your ability.

152. The Principles of Resolving Conceptions and Imaginings

1. You must affirm that only God is the truth. No matter how good they may be, people’s conceptions and imaginings are still empty, unpractical doctrines, which are of no benefit to people;

2. People’s conceptions and imaginings do not conform to God’s words and are ill-suited to the essence of the truth. You cannot be saved by living in conceptions and imaginings;

3. God’s words and the truth are the sole bane of conceptions. Only by reading God’s words more and pursuing the truth more will you be able to resolve all your conceptions and imaginings;

4. Through pursuing and seeking the truth you will attain true knowledge of God, and only then will you be able to attain the truth, enter into reality and receive God’s blessings.

153. The Principles of Choosing a Path of Belief in God

1. In your belief in God, you should obey God’s work, and choose to walk Peter’s path of pursuing the truth and being perfected. You must never walk Paul’s path of the antichrist;

2. In your belief in God, you should follow closely and obey the leadership and shepherding of the man used by the Holy Spirit. Never follow false leaders or antichrists into walking the path of defying God;

3. In your belief in God, you should follow only God. It would be better to render service to God than live within the evil trends of the world, dragging out an ignoble life and becoming a filthy demon;

4. In your belief in God, you should choose the correct path according to God’s words. Only by living by God’s words and the truth can you be human. Never live by satanic philosophies or fallacies.

154. The Principles of Possessing True Faith

1. True faith in God arises from believing in and knowing God’s words, and is established upon the foundation of understanding the truth and knowing God’s work;

2. In God’s words, you must focus on seeking to understand the truth, so as to know God’s work and produce faith and strength;

3. You must accept God’s judgment and chastisement, pruning and dealing, and trials and refinement, so as to know God’s righteous disposition and produce a God-fearing heart;

4. Pray and seek the truth in all things, have real association with God, and enable people to have great faith in God and to truly have knowledge of Him by obtaining the work of the Holy Spirit.

155. The Principles of Spending for God

1. Spending for God is a created being’s duty and responsibility, by Heaven’s law and earth’s principle. Regardless of how your end will be, you should fulfill your duty properly and you shouldn’t regret;

2. In spending for God, you should harbor right intentions, not covet fame and fortune, not seek remuneration and not be slipshod, but do it only to repay God’s love and satisfy God;

3. If you truly dedicate yourself to spending for God, then you must put yourself at the disposal of the arrangements of God’s family, learn to obey, submit to God’s orchestrations and not make personal decisions;

4. You should decide how to spend for God according to the needs of the work of God’s family, your own faith and stature, and the duties you are able to perform.

156. The Principles of Setting up a Church

1. As long as around 20 people truly accept God’s work and demand to live the church life, then a church may be set up;

2. The vote to set up a church must be presided over by a church leader, a gospel deacon or a watering deacon;

3. Once the leaders and deacons of the church have been elected, a prayer meeting presided over by those who set up the church is to be held, God’s words are to be read, and the church’s establishment is to be formally announced;

4. The name of the church may be determined according to the local geographical name. Once the church is set up, it must be divided into small meeting groups, with numbers of people determined depending on circumstances.

157. The Principles of Obeying the Church

1. As long as church decisions conform to God’s words, the truth, and to the prescribed principles of work arrangements, then you should accept and obey them. You should not refuse or defy them;

2. As long as arrangements and decisions benefit church work and God’s chosen people, then you should accept and obey them. You should not refuse or defy them;

3. As long as arrangements and decisions are approved with the agreement of the majority of God’s chosen people, then you should accept and obey them. You should not refuse or defy them;

4. Obeying an individual leader or worker is absolutely not obeying the church. Absolutely no individual leader or worker can represent the church—God’s chosen people must be clear on this.

158. The Principles of Seeking Salvation

1. You must accept God’s judgment and chastisement, pruning and dealing, and trials and refinement, so as to know God’s righteous disposition;

2. You must be able to accept the truth and obey the truth from eating and drinking God’s words, and obtain the enlightenment, illumination and guidance of the work of the Holy Spirit;

3. You must establish a normal relationship with God, be absolutely able to obey God’s work and perform the duty you are supposed to do, and be devoted to God;

4. You must seek the truth and practice the truth in all things and live by God’s words so as to cast off the dark influence of Satan and truly obey God.

159. The Principles of Seeking to Be Perfected

1. You must give your heart to God, dedicate yourself completely to God, seek to be an honest person and walk Peter’s path of loving God;

2. You must obey all of God’s work. Be able to accept and obey it no matter how much God’s work is at odds with man’s conceptions, and be faithful only to God;

3. You must seek to know God, resolve your estrangement from God, your conceptions and satanic dispositions, be an honest person, and become someone who truly loves God;

4. You must accept all manner of trials and refinement, focus on changing your life disposition, be absolutely able to obey God and live by God’s words, and be of one mind with God.

160. The Principles of Submitting to God’s Orchestrations

1. God is the Creator and people are created beings, and so they should submit to God’s orchestrations and obey God’s arrangements—this is the rationality people should have;

2. Man’s destiny is in God’s hands. People cannot master themselves, they should hand everything over to God’s control, and obey God’s orchestrations and arrangements;

3. Have faith that God is righteous, and that to man He is all love and salvation. No matter how much God’s actions are at odds with man’s conceptions, you should always obey till death and not complain;

4. When you encounter trials and refinement, place your life and death in God’s hands, you wish only to be able to bear witness to God and satisfy God, and make no personal decisions or demands.

161. The Principles of Following God’s Will

1. You must recognize that following God’s will is the heaven-sent vocation of created beings, and that it is Heaven’s law and earth’s principle and incumbent upon created beings to carry out God’s will;

2. You must have a God-loving heart, be considerate toward God’s will, do your utmost to exalt God and bear witness to God, and bring people before God;

3. You must perform all the work God commissions in strict accordance with present work arrangements, sermons and fellowships, and fulfill your duty;

4. You must bear the important responsibility of the work of spreading the gospel, take God’s commissions as your own tasks, be faithful only to God, and obey God till death.

162. The Principles of Living by God’s Words

1. You must practice and experience God’s words so as to know God’s words, understand all the truths within God’s words and enter completely into the reality of the truth;

2. You must seek the truth with every problem, use the truth to resolve problems, and allow the truth to become your life’s reality;

3. You must view things according to the truth and practice the truth, so as to handle matters with principle and in conformity with the truth, and become someone with truth and humanity;

4. Practice praying to God, fellowshiping with God and trying to grasp God’s will in all things, so as to conform to God’s will in all things and walk together with God.

Though the principles of practice of the 162 issues above have now been put in order, they can only be said to be mostly accurate. The principles of practice of some of the issues are not yet entirely complete, and some issues may yet have one or two principles added. But the four principles confirmed for every issue are the most fundamental, most important ones. To ensure that practicing the truth is done more comprehensively, God’s chosen people may further add one or two principles of practice to some issues. The main fundamental principles of these 162 issues are now established, and God’s family has now paved the way for practicing the truth. If, in practical experience and entry, God’s chosen people are able to genuinely understand the essence of the truth, then they will be further able to accurately determine the complete principles of practice. In this way, God’s chosen people will thoroughly enter the reality of the truth. Once the principles of practice of these 162 issues have been issued, then church meetings may begin to fellowship related words of God, and fellowship every truth and their four principles of practice so as to understand the truth with clarity and have a path to practice. This can ensure that we perform our duties up to standard, that we live before God and expend for Him normally, that we are devoted to His commissions, that we spread the gospel, bear witness for God and expand Christ’s kingdom, that we carry out God’s will, and it ensures that we perform our duties and serve God in keeping with the principles of the truth, so as to conform to God’s will—this is absolute. When we perform our duties and resolve problems in the future, it will be easy to practice the truth, and we may, according to God’s words, refer directly to the principles of practice of these 162 issues and fellowship the truth. In this way, we will easily understand the truth, have a way forward, and be able to enter the reality of the truth.

If God’s chosen people understand and grasp the principles of practice of these 162 issues, they will achieve great results in the performance of their duties and be able to practice the truth so as to handle matters with principle. This would be a thorough entry into the reality of the truth, and one would certainly be blessed by God. If someone still handles matters in a way that is against the truth and without principle, or if they know the principles but do not abide by them, then this is to knowingly commit offense, and pertains to rejecting the truth and resisting the truth. People like this, therefore, certainly do not love the truth, and will find it very hard to attain salvation. Entry into the reality of the truth is not accomplished just depending on the church life. One must achieve an understanding of the truth and enter into reality in the performance of one’s duty, and gain God’s praise. God’s work has reached the final stage of spreading the gospel of the kingdom. Whether or not someone possesses the reality of the truth depends on whether or not they can practice the truth and be utterly devoted to God in spreading the gospel and bearing witness for God, whether or not they can pursue the truth to know God and attain change in their life disposition, and whether or not they truly obey God and truly love God in their spreading of the gospel of the kingdom, and can bear beautiful and resounding witness. God’s chosen people should all be clear that spreading the gospel of the kingdom is God’s will. Now is the key time when God tests people to see whether or not they can complete the commission of spreading the gospel and bearing witness for God. If people still cannot handle matters with principle in spreading the gospel of the kingdom, if they cannot faithfully fulfill their duty, but are still able to act wantonly and wildly, then this completely exposes them as not possessing a shred of the reality of the truth. People like this are evil-doers, unbelievers, and must inevitably be punished and eliminated.

In this final stage of God’s work, whether or not someone pursues the truth and can attain salvation depends on whether or not they handle matters with principle in spreading the gospel of the kingdom, whether or not they practice the truth, and whether or not they truly obey God. Exactly whether or not someone possesses the reality of the truth, whether they are good or evil, and exactly what path they walk is entirely revealed by these practical issues. Whether or not someone can attain salvation and be perfected in spreading the gospel of the kingdom depends on whether or not they can pay the price in pursuing the truth, and whether or not they can endure great suffering and stand witness in the performance of their duties. This is the key time that will determine people’s fate and destination, and people should all know God’s righteous disposition, for now is the time wherein God’s work is coming to an end and His righteous disposition will be entirely revealed. There will no longer be any mercy from God for those who have never pursued the truth, for God’s disposition is holy and righteous. God detests those who have never pursued the truth and who do not truly repent, and He hates and curses all those who deny the truth, reject the truth and defy Him. “What you should understand is this: The work of God never waits for any that cannot keep pace with Him, and the righteous disposition of God shows no mercy to any man.”